/substitutability between same-language immigrants and natives with different levels of labor market experience …

We examine the impact of language training on the economic integration of immigrants in France. The assignment to this … test score of an initial language exam is below a certain threshold. This eligibility rule creates a discontinuity in the … relation between the test result and the variables of interest, which is used to estimate the causal effect of language …

, primary reasons for immigration, the subsidized intensive Hebrew language training program (ulpan), Ethiopian Jews, and Jewish …This paper analyzes the Hebrew language proficiency, probability of employment, and labor market earnings of immigrants … and non-Jewish immigrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU), in addition to standard immigration, demographic, and human …

-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases … school dropout. A key mediating factor for this effect is parents' lower speaking proficiency in the host-country language …

on English language skills, we test whether immigrants who are proficient in English choose to move to countries where … European countries, where English is not the official language and where labor mobility is essentially free. Our estimation …

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

of language proficiency on over-education, particularly, whether individuals with deficient language skills tend to …, that individuals with better language knowledge are more likely to be over-educated. However, estimating a model that … controls for individuals' socio-demographic characteristics reveals the opposite: better language knowledge decreases over …

effect estimates show that the restrictive immigration policy has had an adverse impact on the quality of prospective … restrictive immigration policy disproportionately discourages high-ability international students from attending US schools. Our …

natives' opinion toward immigration exploiting reforms in compulsory education in Europe in the 1960s through the 1990s. Our … role of immigration in host societies, with a positive effect on tolerance of diversity and a positive effect on the … assessment of immigration's role in host countries. Our findings suggest that education as a policy instrument can increase …