TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Zorlu, Aslan
AU  - Hartog, Joop
        TI  - The Impact of Language on Socioeconomic Integration of Immigrants
        PY  - 2018/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 11485
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp11485
        AB  - This study examines the causal effects of Dutch language proficiency of immigrants from four main source countries on their labour market and social integration outcomes. Language proficiency appears ranked according to linguistic distance to The Netherlands, a ranking that even holds for the gender gap in proficiency. We assess the effect of language proficiency on two objective indicators of integration (employment and income) and two subjective measures (feeling Dutch and feeling integrated). The analysis shows that endogeneity of language skills masks a substantial part of language effects. Once accounted for endogeneity, effects of Dutch language proficiency on social and economic integration of immigrants are more than double the estimates ignoring endogeneity.
        KW  - language skills
KW  - immigrants
KW  - integration
KW  - treatment effects
        ER  -