We investigate the interplay of language skills and immigrant stocks in determining bilateral FDI out-stocks of OECD … immigrants on bilateral FDI – provided that residents of the two countries have few language skills in common. We find a similar … effect for immigrants from third countries that speak the language(s) of the FDI host country, making them potential …

This article uses micro-data from the Spanish National Immigrant Survey to investigate the impact of Spanish language … Spanish proficiency, of approximately 27%. This figure varies largely across educational groups, with high-qualified workers … earning a premium of almost 50%. This conspicuous complementarity between formal qualifications and language skills poses a …

high levels of English language proficiency and earnings. They experience disadvantages in both dimensions at arrival, but … is studied here, but also in earlier censuses (1980-2000). The Russian Jews, whether male or female, have higher levels … is that the Russian Jewish immigrants from the late 19th and early 20th centuries (1881 to 1920's) also experienced high …

This paper is an analysis of the English-language proficiency and labor market earnings of adult male Soviet Jewish …

the language proficiency of immigrants by exploiting the fact that the initial placement of guest-workers after WWII was … several data sets, we find a small but robust and significant negative effect of ethnic concentration on immigrants' language … German-speakers would increase only modestly even under the counterfactual scenario of a regionally equal distribution of …

The rapid growth and high levels of internationalization by Chinese firms, raise a natural interest in the study of the … factors which have led the notable international presence of Chinese firms. To contribute to this effort, we use data from the … 2008-10 survey of China's High-tech firms, conducted by the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, to estimate the …

the local labor demand shocks generated by Cambodia's WTO accession to assess how changes in the employment of women …

lab-in-the-field experiment conducted in Cambodia. Half of the subjects face the risk to lose a large proportion of their …

women's wages in the apparel sector in developing countries. Using household and labour force surveys from Cambodia and Sri …

relatively new plant-level panel dataset from Cambodia, this paper applies survival analysis to estimate the relationship between …