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The wage premium from foreign language skills

Liwiński, Jacek - 2018

The globalization of labour markets makes language skills one of the key competences required by employers nowadays. Our purpose is to estimate the wage premium from foreign language skills (FLS) earned by the Poles. We also want to find out whether this premium is affected by the fact of...

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Determinants of bilingualism among children

Chiswick, Barry R.; Gindelsky, Marina - 2014

This paper analyzes the determinants of bilingualism (i.e., speaks a language other than English at home) among … conducted overall, within genders, and within racial and ethnic groups. Bilingualism is more prevalent if the parents are … increases child bilingualism, while a higher level of parental education tends to decrease it. Children of Asian and especially …

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Using Achievement Tests to Measure Language Assimilation and Language Bias Among Immigrant Children

Akresh, Richard; Redstone, Ilana - 2021

We use Woodcock Johnson III child assessment data in the New Immigrant Survey to examine language assimilation and test score bias among children of Hispanic immigrants. Our identification strategy exploits the test language randomization (Spanish or English) to quantitatively measure the degree...

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Heterogeneity in marginal returns to language training of immigrants

Giesecke, Matthias; Schuß, Eric - 2019

We estimate the effect of language training on subsequent employment and wages of immigrants under essential heterogeneity. The identifying variation is based on regional differences in language training availability that we use to instrument endogenous participation. Estimating marginal...

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The power of language : educational and mental health impacts of language training for refugee children

Tumen, Semih; Vlassopoulos, Michael; Wahba, Jackline - 2025

This paper examines the causal impact of a large-scale Turkish language training program on the academic performance, school participation, and mental well-being of Syrian refugee children in T¨urkiye. Using rich administrative data and a staggered difference-in-differences design, we find that...

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Complementarities of occupations and language skills of immigrants in Europe

Tóth, Peter; Vitáloš, Matej - 2024

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Welfare usage in the U.S.: does immigrant birthplace and immigration status matter?

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth; Oyolola, Maharouf - 2009

The study of welfare participation in the U.S. prior to the 1996 welfare reform act and even afterward has focused on comparisons between native born and immigrant households. Analyses that have gone beyond this broad classification have focused on comparisons across race or with particular...

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The role of race and birth place in welfare usage among comparable women: Evidence from the US

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth; Oyolola, Maharouf - 2011

There is evidence that women are more likely to live in poverty than men. Given the fact that the poor are more likely to use welfare, it becomes useful to consider welfare usage among women. A-priori welfare programs are set up in such a way that welfare usage should be based primarily on...

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Welfare Usage in the U.S : Does Immigrant Birthplace and Immigration Status Matter?

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2009

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Welfare usage in the US : does immigrant birthplace and immigration status matter?

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth; Oyolola, Maharouf - 2009

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003931975