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 study provides an account of the dynamics of the dominant language adjustment process among immigrants in … language skills in immigrant selection. A difference between differences approach is used to isolate the impacts of these … category, educational attainment and age at migration impact on immigrant's language skills. The increased English Proficiency …

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 …

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 …

demand and technology, production expansion, and specialization of native workers as immigration rises. …