This study is the first empirical analysis to identify the causal effect of a separate preparatory language learning … in secondary school. Our results show that primary school-aged refugees who visit a preparatory class perform … preparatory classes with a focus on language learning. …

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

destination among international migrants, the determinants among immigrants of destination language proficiency, and the labor …, Efficiency in acquiring destination language proficiency, including education, age at migration and linguistic distance, among …This chapter reports on the “economics of language” for immigrants—that is, the influence of language on the choice of …

language skills of real-world migrants. Our findings show that better language proficiency in the cover letter has a strong …, technological improvements, and organizational changes. Due to these developments, oral and written language skills have become … increasingly important even in less skilled jobs. Immigrants - who often have limited skills in the host country language upon …

Speaking the language of the host country eases migrants' integration and tends to boost their economic success in the … migrate. In addition, conditional on being a migrant, the relation between language skills and migrants' integration and …, we test whether and how much language proficiency determines migration flows across Europe. The European Union with …

This paper analyses the effect of the presence of German language learning opportunities abroad on migration to Germany … that the number of language institutes of the GI in a country is positively correlated with migration from that country to … presenting a causal effect from language learning opportunities to migration flows. …

We study the impact of language deficiency on the health production of childhood migrants to Australia. Our … presence of considerable non-classical measurement error in self-reported language proficiency, our results provide lower and … score respectively. The empirical analysis is framed in terms of a Grossman model which indicates a twofold role of language …