What drives the language proficiency of immigrants?

IE Isphording - IZA World of Labor, 2015 - wol.iza.org
Being able to communicate in the host country language is one of the main drivers of
successful economic and social integration of immigrants. Low levels of language …

A transdisciplinary framework for SLA in a multilingual world

Douglas Fir Group - The Modern Language Journal, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
THE PHENOMENON OF MULTILINGUALISM is as old as humanity, but multilingualism has
been catapulted to a new world order in the 21st century. Social relations, knowledge …

Migration and labor market integration in Europe

D Dorn, J Zweimüller - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2021 - aeaweb.org
The European labor market allows for the border-free mobility of workers across 31
countries that cover most of the continent's population. However, rates of migration across …

(The Struggle for) Refugee integration into the labour market: evidence from Europe

F Fasani, T Frattini, L Minale - Journal of Economic Geography, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We study the labour market performance of refugees vis-à-vis comparable migrants across
20 European countries and over time. In the first part of our analysis, we document that …

Linguistic structures and economic outcomes

A Mavisakalyan, C Weber - Journal of Economic Surveys, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Linguistic structures have recently started to attract attention from economists as
determinants of economic phenomena. This paper provides the first comprehensive review …

Lift the ban? Initial employment restrictions and refugee labour market outcomes

F Fasani, T Frattini, L Minale - Journal of the European …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
This paper investigates the medium-to long-term effects on refugee labour market outcomes
of the temporary employment bans being imposed on asylum seekers in many countries …

Language roulette–the effect of random placement on refugees' labour market integration

D Auer - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Placement of refugees and subsequent labour market integration within a host country
represents a key challenge for policymakers and has emerged as one of the most divisive …

The economics of language

V Ginsburgh, S Weber - Journal of Economic Literature, 2020 - aeaweb.org
This paper brings together methodological, theoretical, and empirical analysis into the
framework of linguistic diversity. It reflects both historical and contemporary research by …

Language skills and labor market performance of immigrants in the Netherlands

Y Yao, JC Van Ours - Labour Economics, 2015 - Elsevier
Many immigrants in the Netherlands have poor Dutch language skills. They face problems in
speaking and reading Dutch. Our paper investigates how these problems affect their labor …

[HTML][HTML] Communicative competences in enhancing of regional competitiveness in the labour market

V Koval, Y Polyezhayev, A Bezkhlibna - Baltic Journal of Economic …, 2018 - cyberleninka.ru
The characteristic of the regional labour market requires the usage of modern aspects for the
key factors' analysis of labour cost increase. The high rate of migration, covering Ukraine in …