This study provides an account of the dynamics of the dominant language adjustment process among immigrants in … language proficiency of these immigrants … Australia using the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia, which comprises two cohorts of immigrants that arrived in …

This policy analysis discusses issues regarding the migration to Europe of large numbers of immigrants and refugees who …, on arrival, do not know their host country's language. It reviews problems of economic integration into the labor market …

This study provides an account of the dynamics of the dominant language adjustment process among immigrants in … category, educational attainment and age at migration impact on immigrant’s language skills. The increased English Proficiency … language proficiency of these immigrants. …

the economic performance of skilled immigrants is presented with a particular focus on the wage returns to skill both in …

This paper analyzes the Hebrew language proficiency, probability of employment, and labor market earnings of immigrants … features of the analysis include the study of long-duration immigrants (3 to 20 years), and analyses for: males and females …, primary reasons for immigration, the subsidized intensive Hebrew language training program (ulpan), Ethiopian Jews, and Jewish …

destination language skills, and Economic incentives for acquiring this proficiency, (3) the consequences for immigrants of …This paper provides a review of the research on the ‘economics of language' as applied to international migration. Its … primary focuses are on: (1) the effect of the language skills of an individual on the choice of destination among …

destination language skills, and Economic incentives for acquiring this proficiency,(3) the consequences for immigrants of …This paper provides a review of the research on the ‘economics of language' as applied to international migration. Its … primary focuses are on:(1) the effect of the language skills of an individual on the choice of destination among international …

This paper extends the analysis of the acquisition of destination language proficiency among immigrants by explicitly …) probit analyses are employed. Immigrant English language skills are greater the younger the age at migration, the longer the … duration of residence, the higher the level of education, and for immigrants not from Asia. Large positive correlations in the …

immigrants from different countries and arriving under different immigration policy regimes vary in their probability of over … the greater probability of immigrants' over-qualification masks significant group heterogeneities. Thus, the mechanisms … that lead to over-qualification may vary for different groups of immigrants. …

This article investigates the macro-level drivers of adult-age language learning. We construct a new dataset that … covers German language learning in 77 countries (including Germany) for 1992-2006. Fixed-effects regressions show that … language learning in the EU is strongly associated with immigration. Instead, immigration by non-EU citizens in associated with …