IZA Discussion Papers

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