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The IZA Discussion Paper Series (ISSN: 2365-9793) disseminates high-quality research by IZA network members to the scientific community and the interested public worldwide before they are later published in academic journals. Comprising more than 17,000 papers, IZA's publication flagship is the most influential working paper series in labor economics.

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142 IZA Discussion Papers
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 González
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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 555
How Much Language is Enough? Some Immigrant Language Lessons from Canada and Germany
Don J. DeVoretz, Holger Hinte, Christiane Werner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 502
Immigrants' Language Skills: The Australian Experience in a Longitudinal Survey
Barry R. Chiswick, Yew Liang Lee, Paul W. Miller
published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2004, 71-72, 97-139
IZA Discussion Paper No. 471
Immigrants' Language Skills and Visa Category
Barry R. Chiswick, Yew Liang Lee, Paul W. Miller
published in: International Migration Review, 2006, 40 (2), 419-450
IZA Discussion Paper No. 460
Family Matters: The Role of the Family in Immigrants' Destination Language Acquisition
Barry R. Chiswick, Yew Liang Lee, Paul W. Miller
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2005, 18 (4), 631–647
IZA Discussion Paper No. 451
The Complementarity of Language and Other Human Capital: Immigrant Earnings in Canada
Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2003, 22 (5), 469-480
IZA Discussion Paper No. 449
Do Enclaves Matter in Immigrant Adjustment?
Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller
published in: City and Community, 2005, 4 (1), 5-35
IZA Discussion Paper No. 177
Immigrant Adjustment in Israel: Literacy and Fluency in Hebrew and Earnings
Barry R. Chiswick, Gaston Repetto
published in: Djajic, S. (ed.), International Migration: Trends, Policy and Economic Impact, New York, 2001, 204-228
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