(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 …

, on arrival, do not know their host country's language. It reviews problems of economic integration into the labor market …

This paper examines the link between trade-induced changes in local labor market opportunities and English language … result of actual improvements in English language speaking abilities, we show that low-skilled immigrants in trade …

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 …

Germany and Canada stand at polar ends of the scientific debate over language integration and ascension to citizenship …. German naturalization, as of January 2000, contains an explicit language criterion for naturalization. The first German … aims at language as a criterion for legal immigration. Canada, in effect, does not base entry or citizenship on knowledge …

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 …

destination among international migrants, the determinants among immigrants of destination language proficiency, and the labor …This chapter reports on the “economics of language” for immigrants—that is, the influence of language on the choice of … market consequences of that proficiency, as expressed in their earnings. Immigrants tend to take language differences across …

We use Woodcock Johnson III child assessment data in the New Immigrant Survey to examine language assimilation and test … 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 …

migrants arrive. Thus, it is increasingly important to consider what role differences in culture and language play in migration … decisions. Recent work shows that culture and language may explain migration patterns to developed countries even better than … in culture and language may create barriers that prevent the full realization of the potential economic gains from …

This paper examines whether language classes raises refugees' language proficiency and improves their socio …-economic integration. Our identification strategy leverages the opening, closing, and gradual expansion of local language training centers … in Denmark, as well as the quasi-random assignment of the refugees to locations with varying proximity to a language …