score bias among children of Hispanic immigrants. Our identification strategy exploits the test language randomization … (Spanish or English) to quantitatively measure the degree and speed of language assimilation, in addition to the potential … costs associated with taking a test in oneś non-dominant language. We find that U.S. born children of Hispanic immigrants …

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 …

tests, children of Hispanic origin were randomly assigned to take the tests either in Spanish or in English. Therefore, we … heterogeneity. For example, U.S. born children at the top of score distribution perform better when they take tests in Spanish …. Foreign-born children of Hispanic immigrants exhibit Spanish dominance during the first round, but it declines and in some …

This paper explores the impact of Spanish language proficiency on immigrant earnings in Spain using an instrumental … distribution. The return to destination language proficiency actually ranges from zero at the bottom quantiles to 30% at the top … quantile of the earning distribution. These findings suggest that the benefits derived from host language knowledge are …

There are various degrees of similarity between the languages of different immigrants and the language of their … destination country. This linguistic distance is an obstacle to the acquisition of a language, which leads to large differences in … the attainments of the language skills necessary for economic and social integration in the destination country. This …

This paper analyzes the impact of missionary activity on English language proficiency and labor market earnings of all …

This article investigates the macro-level drivers of adult-age language learning. We construct a new dataset that … covers German language learning in 77 countries (including Germany) for 1992-2006. Fixed-effects regressions show that … language learning in the EU is strongly associated with immigration. Instead, immigration by non-EU citizens in associated with …

language proficiency and labor market earnings of male and female immigrants to the United States. Design … missionary activity of both Protestants and Catholics on an immigrant’s English language proficiency using a linear probability … with a higher concentration of Protestant missionaries tend to exhibit higher levels of English language proficiency and …

widened during that period. Immigrants (and natives) who live in Spanish-speaking households are less likely than individuals …