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 …

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

. 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. …

We examine the impact of language training on the economic integration of immigrants in France. The assignment to this … test score of an initial language exam is below a certain threshold. This eligibility rule creates a discontinuity in the … increases labor force participation of the treated individuals. The language classes appear to have a larger effect for labor …

We examine the impact of language training on the economic integration of immigrants in France. The assignment to this … test score of an initial language exam is below a certain threshold. This eligibility rule creates a discontinuity in the … relation between the test result and the variables of interest, which is used to estimate the causal effect of language …

migrants arrive. Thus, it is increasingly important to consider what role differences in culture and language play in migration … decisions. Recent work shows that culture and language may explain migration patterns to developed countries even better than … in culture and language may create barriers that prevent the full realization of the potential economic gains from …

We examine the impact of language training on the economic integration of immigrants in France. The assignment to this … test score of an initial language exam is below a certain threshold. This eligibility rule creates a discontinuity in the … increases labor force participation of the treated individuals. The language classes appear to have a larger effect for labor …

, primary reasons for immigration, the subsidized intensive Hebrew language training program (ulpan), Ethiopian Jews, and Jewish …This paper analyzes the Hebrew language proficiency, probability of employment, and labor market earnings of immigrants … and non-Jewish immigrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU), in addition to standard immigration, demographic, and human …