Search Results - subject:"Language proficiency"

Language proficiency and hiring of immigrants : evidence from a new field experimental approach

Carlsson, Magnus; Eriksson, Stefan; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2023

requirements, little is known about how immigrants' language proficiency is rewarded in the labor market. However, estimating the … language skills of real-world migrants. Our findings show that better language proficiency in the cover letter has a strong … positive effect on the callback rate for a job interview: moving from the lowest level of language proficiency to a level …

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Deutschkenntnisse entwickeln sich bei Geflüchteten und anderen Neuzugewanderten ähnlich: Sprachkurse spielen wichtige Rolle

Kristen, Cornelia; Kosyakova, Yuliya; Spörlein, Christoph - In: DIW Wochenbericht 89 (2022) 5, pp. 63-69

Das Erlernen der deutschen Sprache spielt eine Schlüsselrolle für die Integration von neu zugewanderten Menschen. In diesem Beitrag wird der Zweitspracherwerb von Personen, die im vergangenen Jahrzehnt in die Bundesrepublik gekommen sind, in den ersten Jahren nach dem Zuzug untersucht. Hierzu...

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Deutschkenntnisse entwickeln sich bei Geflüchteten und anderen Neuzugewanderten ähnlich : Sprachkurse spielen wichtige Rolle

Kristen, Cornelia; Kosyakova, Yuliya; Spörlein, Christoph - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 89 (2022) 5, pp. 63-69

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Over-Education and Immigrant Earnings: A Penalized Quantile Panel Regression Analysis

Maani, Sholeh A.; Wen, Le - 2021

Despite evidence that immigrants experience a higher incidence of over-education, relatively few studies have considered the labour market outcomes of over-education for immigrants. Using longitudinal data and penalized quantile panel regression, we inspect the earnings effects of job mismatches...

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Cultural assimilation : learning and sorting

Monteiro, Stein - In: Review of Economic Analysis : REA 13 (2021) 2, pp. 115-156

Immigrants have greater exposure to co-ethnics, leading to fewer incentives to learn the local culture and assimilate. In this paper, the exposure channel through which source country richness affects assimilating immigration is modelled through neighbourhood location choices and incentives to...

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Communication barriers and infant health : intergenerational effects of randomly allocating refugees across language regions

Auer, Daniel; Kunz, Johannes - 2021

This paper investigates the intergenerational effect of communication barriers on child health at birth using a natural experiment in Switzerland. We leverage the fact that refugees arriving in Switzerland originate from places that have large shares of French (or Italian) speakers for...

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Over-education and immigrant earnings: a penalized quantile panel regression analysis

Maani, Sholeh A.; Wen, Le - 2021

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English as a lingua franca in Mainland China : an analysis of intercultural business communicative competence

Yao, Yao; Du-Babcock, Bertha - In: International journal of business communication : IJBC … 60 (2023) 1, pp. 3-23

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Educational and Skills Mismatches among Immigrants: The Impact of Host Language Proficiency

Budría, Santiago; Martínez de Ibarreta, Carlos - 2020

This paper asks to what extent host language proficiency can insure immigrants against the risk of ending up in … discriminates between three forms of mismatch, overqualification, under-qualification and over-skilling. Host language proficiency … that treatment effects are heterogeneous. English language proficiency among immigrants in Australia reduces the …

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Educational and skills mismatches among immigrants : the impact of host language proficiency

Budría, Santiago; Ibarreta, Carlos Martínez de - 2020

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