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 …

This study provides an account of the dynamics of the dominant language adjustment process among immigrants in … Australia using the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia, which comprises two cohorts of immigrants that arrived in … Australia around five years apart. There are two special features of these data that provide the framework for analysis. First …

(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 …

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 …

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

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 …

This study provides an account of the dynamics of the dominant language adjustment process among immigrants in … Australia using the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia, which comprises two cohorts of immigrants that arrived in … Australia around five years apart. There are two special features of these data that provide the framework for analysis. First …

-receiving countries such as Canada, the US, and Australia are critically evaluated. The expanded use of skilled temporary foreign workers … temporary migrants already in the country as sources of permanent immigration. An overview of key results in the literature on …

language proficiency of migrants. These studies, however, ignore the choice of location as a function of language skills. Using … data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that migrants choose smaller networks as their English language proficiency …

language proficiency of migrants. These studies, however, ignore the choice of location as a function of language skills. Using … data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that migrants choose smaller networks as their English language proficiency …