IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'The impact of exposure to missionaries on the English language proficiency and earnings of immigrants in the USA' in: International Journal of Manpower, 2019, 40 (4), 574 - 590

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9498

Education, Health and Fertility of UK Immigrants: The Role of English Language Skills

Yu Aoki, Lualhati Santiago

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9433

Speaking in Numbers: The Effect of Reading Performance on Math Performance among Immigrants

Ingo E. Isphording, Marc Piopiunik, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

published in: Economics Letters, 2016, 139: 52-56

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9431

Bilingual Schooling and Earnings: Evidence from a Language-in-Education Reform

Lorenzo Cappellari, Antonio Di Paolo

revised version published in: Economics of Education Review 64 (2018) 90–101

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9419

Heterogeneous Immigrants and Foreign Direct Investment: The Role of Language Skills

Matthias Lücke, Tobias Heidland (né Stöhr)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9383

The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior: Experimental Evidence from Children's Intertemporal Choices

Matthias Sutter, Silvia Angerer, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Philipp Lergetporer

published as 'Language group differences in time preferences: Evidence from primary school children in a bilingual city' in: European Economic Review, 2018, 106, 21-34.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9039

Cooperation and Discrimination Within and Across Language Borders: Evidence from Children in a Bilingual City

Silvia Angerer, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Philipp Lergetporer, Matthias Sutter

published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 90, 254-264

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8846

Language Barriers and Immigrant Health Production

Andrew Clarke, Ingo E. Isphording

forthcoming in: Health Economics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8748

The Impact of Multilingualism on Spanish Language Acquisition among Immigrants in Spain

Santiago Budría, Pablo Swedberg

published as 'The impact of multilingualism on host language acquisition' in: Empirica, first online 20 October 2018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8624

Economic Returns to Speaking the Right Language(s)? Evidence from Kazakhstan's Shift in State Language and Language of Instruction

Alisher Aldashev, Alexander M. Danzer

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2020, DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2020.1779927

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8624

Economic Returns to Speaking the Right Language(s)? Evidence from Kazakhstan's Shift in State Language and Language of Instruction

Alisher Aldashev, Alexander M. Danzer

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2020, DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2020.1779927

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8624

Economic Returns to Speaking the Right Language(s)? Evidence from Kazakhstan's Shift in State Language and Language of Instruction

Alisher Aldashev, Alexander M. Danzer

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2020, DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2020.1779927

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8572

Language and Labor Market Success

Ingo E. Isphording

published in: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition), 2015, Pages 260-265

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8572

Language and Labor Market Success

Ingo E. Isphording

published in: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition), 2015, Pages 260-265

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8250

Does Foreign Language Proficiency Foster Migration of Young Individuals within the European Union?

Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll, Zoë Kuehn

published in: The Economics of Language Policy, edited by Bengt-Arne Wickstroem and Michele Gazzola, MIT Press (ISBN: 978-0-262-03470-8)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8090

Linguistic Barriers in the Destination Language Acquisition of Immigrants

Ingo E. Isphording, Sebastian Otten

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 105, 30–50.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8064

Returns to Citizenship? Evidence from Germany's Recent Immigration Reforms

Christina Gathmann, Nicolas Keller

revised version published as 'Returns to Citizenship? Evidence from Germany's Recent Immigration Reforms' in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (616), 3141 3181

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7924

Assimilation, Criminality and Ethnic Conflict

Indraneel Dasgupta, Diganta Mukherjee

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7880

International Migration and the Economics of Language

Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller

published in: Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller (eds.), Handbook on the Economics of International Immigration, 1A, Elsevier, 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7841

The Causal Effect of Deficiency at English on Female Immigrants' Labor Market Outcomes in the UK

Alfonso Miranda, Yu Zhu

forthcoming in: Applied Economics Letters (DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2020.1753873) as "The Effect of Deficiency at English on Female Immigrants’ Wage in the UK: Correcting for measurement error, endogenous treatment, and sample selection bias".

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7724

Returns to Foreign Language Skills in a Developing Country: The Case of Turkey

Antonio Di Paolo, Aysit Tansel

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2015, 51(4), 407-421

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7397

Same Same But Different: Dialects and Trade

Alfred Lameli, Volker Nitsch, Jens Suedekum, Nikolaus Wolf

published in: German Economic Review, 2015, 16 (3), 290-306

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7118

The Value of Earning for Learning: Performance Bonuses in Immigrant Language Training

Olof Aslund, Mattias Engdahl

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7080

The Returns to Language Skills in the US Labor Market

Ingo E. Isphording, Mathias Sinning

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7019

English Deficiency and the Native-Immigrant Wage Gap

Alfonso Miranda, Yu Zhu

revised version published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 118 (1), 38-41

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6957

The Impact of Language Proficiency on Immigrants' Earnings in Spain

Santiago Budría, Pablo Swedberg

published in: Revista de Economía Aplicada, 2015, 23 (67), 63-91

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6854

Russian Jewish Immigrants in the United States: The Adjustment of their English Language Proficiency and Earnings in the American Community Survey

Barry R. Chiswick, Nicholas Larsen

published in: Contemporary Jewry, 2015, 35 (3), 191 - 209

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6369

The Evaluation of Immigration Policies

Ulf Rinne

published in: Amelie F. Constant and Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, Chapter 28, 530-551

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6363

Living and Working in Ethnic Enclaves: Language Proficiency of Immigrants in U.S. Metropolitan Areas

Julia Beckhusen, Raymond J.G.M. Florax, Thomas de Graaff, Jacques Poot, Brigitte Waldorf

published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2013, 92(2), 305-328

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6333

The Role of Language in Shaping International Migration

Alicia Adsera, Mariola Pytlikova

revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125(586), F49–F81

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6243

Assimilation in Multilingual Cities

Javier Ortega, Gregory Verdugo

revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2015, 28(3), 785-815

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5851

The Portability of New Immigrants' Human Capital: Language, Education and Occupational Matching

Gustave Goldmann, Arthur Sweetman, Casey Warman

Published as: Warman, Casey, Arthur Sweetman and Gustave Goldmann. 2015. “The Portability of New Immigrants’ Human Capital: Language, Education, and Occupational Skills” Canadian Public Policy 41 (S1): 64-79.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5552

Age at Migration, Language and Fertility Patterns among Migrants to Canada

Alicia Adsera, Ana Ferrer

published as 'Factors Influencing the Fertility Choices of Child Immigrants in Canada' in: Population Studies: A Journal of Demography, 2014, 68(1), 65-79

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5411

Can State Language Policies Distort Students' Demand for Higher Education?

Alexander Muravyev, Oleksandr Talavera

revised version published as "Can state language policies distort students' demand for education?" in Journal of Comparative Economics, 2016, 44(2), 383–399

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4802

The Returns to English-Language Skills in India

Mehtabul Azam, Aimee Chin, Nishith Prakash

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2013, 61 (2), 335-367

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4743

Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange

Oliver Falck, Stephan Heblich, Alfred Lameli, Jens Suedekum

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2012, 72 (2-3), 225-239

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4742

Ethnic Concentration and Language Fluency of Immigrants in Germany

Alexander M. Danzer, Firat Yaman

revised version published as 'Ethnic concentration and language fluency of immigrants: Evidence from the guest-worker placement in Germany' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 131(A), 151-165

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4555

The Economic Diversity of Immigration Across the United States

Rachel Friedberg, David A. Jaeger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3950

Ethnicity and the Immigration of Highly Skilled Workers to the United States

Guillermina Jasso

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1+2), 26-42

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3849

The Effect of Integration Policies on the Time until Regular Employment of Newly Arrived Immigrants: Evidence from Denmark

Jens Clausen, Eskil Heinesen, Hans Hummelgaard, Leif Husted, Michael Rosholm

published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (4), 409-417

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3568

The Economics of Language: An Introduction and Overview

Barry R. Chiswick

Julian Simon Lecture IV, IZA, 2008 and published in: Terrance Wiley, Jin Sook Lee and Russell Rumberger (eds.),The Education of Language Minority Immigrants in the United States, Bristol, 2009, 72-91

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3551

The Economic Returns to a Second Official Language: English in Quebec and French in the Rest-of-Canada

Louis N. Christofides, Robert Swidinsky

published as "The Economic Returns to the Knowledge and Use of a Second Official Language: English in Quebec and French in the Rest-of-Canada" in: Canadian Public Policy, 2010, 36(2), 137-158

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3551

The Economic Returns to a Second Official Language: English in Quebec and French in the Rest-of-Canada

Louis N. Christofides, Robert Swidinsky

published as "The Economic Returns to the Knowledge and Use of a Second Official Language: English in Quebec and French in the Rest-of-Canada" in: Canadian Public Policy, 2010, 36(2), 137-158

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3532

Using Achievement Tests to Measure Language Assimilation and Language Bias among Immigrant Children

Richard Akresh, Ilana Redstone Akresh

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2011, 46(3), 647-667

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3446

Occupational Selection in Multilingual Labor Markets

Núria Quella, Silvio Rendon

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2012, 33 (8), 918-937

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3074

Intergenerational Transmission of Language Capital and Economic Outcomes

Teresa Casey, Christian Dustmann

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2008, 43 (3), 660 - 687

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3061

Over-Education in Multilingual Economies: Evidence from Catalonia

Maite Blázquez Cuesta, Silvio Rendon

published online in: International Migration, 2012, [Early View)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2974

Modeling Immigrants' Language Skills

Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 27, 75-128

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2683

The Labour Market Position of Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands: Reason for Migration, Naturalisation and Language Proficiency

Rob Euwals, Jaco Dagevos, Mérove Gijsberts, Hans Roodenburg

published in: International Migration Review, 2010, 44 (3), 513-538

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2664

Occupational Language Requirements and the Value of English in the U.S. Labor Market

Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (1), 353-372

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2587

Matching Language Proficiency to Occupation: The Effect on Immigrants’ Earnings

Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller

published as 'The impact of surplus skills on earnings: Extending the over-education model to language proficiency' in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 36, 263-275

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2575

The Critical Period Hypothesis for Language Learning: What the 2000 US Census Says

Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller

published as "A Test of the Critical Period Hypothesis for Language Learning" in: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2008, 29 (1), 16-29

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1755

Computer Skills, Destination Language Proficiency and the Earnings of Natives and Immigrants

Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2007, 5 (2), 129-157

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1726

The Linguistic and Economic Adjustment of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in the United States, 1980 to 2000

Barry R. Chiswick, Michael Wenz

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2006, 24, 179-216

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1433

Unilingual Versus Bilingual Education System: A Political Economy Analysis

Javier Ortega, Thomas P. Tangerås

revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2008, 6(5), 1078-1108

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1432

Are There Gender and Country of Origin Differences in Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes across European Destinations?

Alicia Adsera, Barry R. Chiswick

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20 (3), 495-526

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1419

Language Skills and Immigrant Adjustment: What Immigration Policy Can Do!

Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller

published in: Deborah Cobb-Clark and Siew-Ean Khoo (eds.), Public Policy and Immigrant Settlement, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006, 121-148

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1246

Linguistic Distance: A Quantitative Measure of the Distance Between English and Other Languages

Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller

published in: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2005, 26 (1), 1-11

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1238

The Linguistic and Economic Adjustment of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in the United States, 2000: A Preliminary Report

Barry R. Chiswick, Michael Wenz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1231

Where Immigrants Settle in the United States

Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller

published in: Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 2004, 6 (2), 185-197

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1216

Parents and Children Talk: The Family Dynamics of English Language Proficiency

Barry R. Chiswick, Yew Liang Lee, Paul W. Miller

published as 'Parents and Children Talk: English Language Proficiency within Immigrant Families' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2005, 3 (3), 243-268

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1098

Nonparametric Bounds on the Returns to Language Skills

Libertad Gonzalez

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2005, 20 (6), 771-795

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1021

PISA Results: What a Difference Immigration Law Makes

Horst Entorf, Nicoleta Minoiu

published in: German Economic Review, 2005, 6(3), 355-376

IZA Discussion Paper No. 558

Enclaves, Language and the Location Choice of Migrants

Thomas K. Bauer, Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2005, 18 (4), 649–662