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 …

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 …

immigration, the presence of immigrant children in schools, and the effect of immigration on the age, sex, language, and … about the extent to which the character of immigration varies as well. There is much broader geographic variation in the …

. Learning a new language is an investment in human capital. Migrants must learn the language of their destination country, but … have shown that fluency in a dominant language is important to economic success and increases economic efficiency. However …, maintaining linguistic diversity also has value since language is also an expression of people’s culture. …

. Learning a new language is an investment in human capital. Migrants must learn the language of their destination country, but … have shown that fluency in a dominant language is important to economic success and increases economic efficiency. However …, maintaining linguistic diversity also has value since language is also an expression of people's culture. …

. However, surprisingly, neither matching nor language skills have any impact on the return to pre-immigration work experience …The implications of human capital portability - including interactions between education, language skills and pre- and … post-immigration occupational matching - for earnings are explored for new immigrants to Canada. Given the importance of …

. However, surprisingly, neither matching nor language skills have any impact on the return to pre-immigration work experience …The implications of human capital portability - including interactions between education, language skills and pre- and … post-immigration occupational matching - for earnings are explored for new immigrants to Canada. Given the importance of …