Das ESF-BAMF-Programm zur berufsbezogenen Sprachförderung soll Personen mit Migrationshintergrund und mangelnden Deutschkenntnissen den Zugang zum deutschen Arbeitsmarkt erleichtern. Dieser Bericht gibt Aufschluss über die Struktur der Teilnehmenden, die in den Jahren 2014 und 2015 einen...

In this paper we argue that different preferences in a decentralized system lead to under provision of public goods. We analyze the provision of public primary education in nineteenth-century Prussia which was characterized by a linguistically polarized society and a decentralized education...

Bis dato gibt es nur wenige Arbeitnehmer in Deutschland, die aus dem Ausland stammen: Über die Hälfte der Befragten gaben in der Akademie-Studie 2015 an, höchstens ein paar Mitarbeiter oder Kollegen zu haben, auf die dies zutrifft. Bei fast 40 Prozent ist es bei keinem einzigen der Fall....

This paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan, a multi-ethnic country with complex ethnic settlement patterns that has switched its official state language from Russian to Kazakh. Using two newly assembled data sets, we...

This paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan, a multi-ethnic country with complex ethnic settlement patterns that has switched its official state language from Russian to Kazakh. Using two newly assembled data sets, we...

This paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan, a multi-ethnic country with complex ethnic settlement patterns that has switched its official state language from Russian to Kazakh. Using two newly assembled data sets, we...

This article uses micro-data from the Spanish National Immigrant Survey to analyze the acquisition of Spanish language skills for immigrants in Spain. The motivation of the paper is threefold. Language skills are important for an individual's labour market performance, Spain offers an important...

Using a repeated cross-section of more than 258,000 residents of 39 European countries covering the period from 1990 to 2012, I study the impact of knowing different foreign languages on income and (for the first time) on unemployment. To help identify causal effects, I also employ a novel...

The paper is devoted to an econometric analysis of learning foreign languages in all parts of the world. Our sample covers 193 countries and 13 important languages. Four factors significantly explain learning, two of which affect the broad decision to learn, while two concern as well the choice...

Constructing advertising directed at multilingual audiences -- Language effects on multilingual speakers -- Studying multilingualism in advertising: Starting from lived experiences and linguistic repertoires -- Linguistic resources in advertising and their impact on multilinguals --...

This paper analyses the wage premia associated with workers' occupational use of foreign languages in Germany. After eliminating time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity and other confounding factors, sizable returns of about 10 percent to applying fluent English skills are found. Returns to...

Diese Studie dient der Identifizierung von kausalen Effekten von Sprachkenntnissen in Fremdsprachen und der Gastlandssprache von Immigranten in Spanien. Um Endogenitätsprobleme und Meßfehlerproblematiken zu beheben, setzt die Analyse auf einen Instrumentvariablenschätzer. Die verwendeten...

Diese Studie befasst sich mit der Quantifizierung von Nachteilen im Spracherwerb von Immigranten, die auf die linguistische Distanz zwischen Muttersprache und Sprache des Gastlandes zurückzuführen sind. Als Datenbasis dient die International Adult Literacy Study, welche mit linguistischer...

This study quantifies the disadvantage in the formation of literacy skills of immigrants that arises from the linguistic distance between mother tongue and host country language. Combining unique cross-country data on literacy scores with information on the linguistic distance between languages,...

This paper analyses the wage premia associated with workers' occupational use of foreign languages in Germany. After eliminating time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity and other confounding factors, sizable returns of about 10 percent to applying fluent English skills are found. Returns to...

This paper analyses the wage premia associated with workers' occupational use of foreign languages in Germany. After eliminating time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity and other confounding factors, sizable returns of about 10 percent to applying fluent English skills are found. Returns to...

This paper analyzes the wage premia associated with workers' occupational use of foreign languages in Germany. After eliminating time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity and other confounding factors, sizable returns of about 0.12 log points to applying fluent English skills are found in the...