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 … migrants, destination language skills display both a prerequisite for and outcome of successful integration. Investments into …

This paper is an analysis of the determinates of Hebrew language speaking and writing skills and the determinates of … migration and if many others in the area in which the respondent lives speak the same origin language. Country of origin and … family structure also matter. Earnings are found to increase with level of schooling, duration in Israel, pre-immigration …

We examine the ability of immigrants to transfer the occupational human capital they acquired prior to immigration. We … first augment a model of occupational choice to study the implications of language proficiency on the cross … less intently on manual skills. Following immigration, they find initial employment in occupations that require the …

English skills. We also find that acquiring better English-language skills improves the educational attainment and labor and …

This paper is an analysis of the determinates of Hebrew language speaking and writing skills and the determinates of … migration and if many others in the area in which the respondent lives speak the same origin language. Country of origin and … family structure also matter. Earnings are found to increase with level of schooling, duration in Israel, pre-immigration …

This paper is an analysis of the determinates of Hebrew language speaking and writing skills and the determinates of … migration and if many others in the area in which the respondent lives speak the same origin language. Country of origin and … family structure also matter. Earnings are found to increase with level of schooling, duration in Israel, pre-immigration …

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