speak and write Catalan. However, we also find that language and education are complementary inputs for generating earnings …

I examine the effect of English language proficiency on the occupational choices of childhood immigrants into the …'s superior language acquisition abilities to estimate the causal effect of English language skills on immigrants' choice of … English language acquisition difficulty among native speakers of other languages. I find that higher proficiency allows …

Speaking the language of the host country eases migrants' integration and tends to boost their economic success in the … migrate. In addition, conditional on being a migrant, the relation between language skills and migrants' integration and … country of destination. However, the decision to acquire language skills may in itself be determined by the intention to …

educated individuals. Introducing a foreign language into compulsory school curricula on the other hand, almost doubles the … number of emigrants to the country where the language is spoken and increases the total number of emigrants by 20%. Depending …

This paper analyzes the effect on earnings of the matching of English language skills to occupational requirements. It … that earnings are related to correct matching of an individual's language skills and that of his occupation. Moreover, the … role to play in matching immigrants to jobs that use their language skills most effectively …

specialized occupations. Compared to non-migrants, immigrants receive more than twice the return for using English. Returns depend … crucially on speaking German well, thus excluding many first generation migrants and are found to occur particularly in service … occupations that involve international factor flows. In such occupations it is likely that migrants can apply complementary skills …

The globalization of labour markets makes language skills one of the key competences required by employers nowadays …. Our purpose is to estimate the wage premium from foreign language skills (FLS) earned by the Poles. We also want to find …, because the Polish language is not used for international communication, while as much as 58% of Poles command at least one …

international (and internal) migrants, both in terms of the ease of obtaining proficiency in the destination language and access to … linguistic enclaves, (2) the determinants of destination language proficiency among international migrants, based on a model (the …This paper provides a review of the research on the ‘economics of language' as applied to international migration. Its …

migrants, destination language skills display both a prerequisite for and outcome of successful integration. Investments into …This article summarizes three different strands of the literature that address the labor market effects of language … ongoing globalization leads to an increased demand for foreign language proficiency to reduce search and information costs and …