Language-Skill Complementarity: Returns to Immigrant Language Acquisition

Berman, Eli; Lang, Kévin; Siniver, Erez

doi:10.3386/w7737

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“…Their results indicate a strong effect of language probability on the job choice, whereby good job matches in terms of language skills and requirements are rewarded by wage premia. Berman et al (2003) use Israeli survey data to assess a potential complementarity between immigrant language proficiency and further human capital. Their results indicate a strong heterogeneity in the effect of language proficiency on wage growth across occupations.…”

Section: Destination Language Skills Of Migrantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Language and Labor Market Success

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2015

International Encyclopedia of the Social &Amp; Behavioral Sciences

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E S ABSTRACT Language and Labor Market Success *This article summarizes three different strands of the literature that address the labor market effects of language-related human capital. (1) A general importance is demonstrated in the empirical evidence on earnings and employment effects of literacy as the ability to productively use written information. Significant effects are found for developed and developing countries, leading on an aggregated macro level to a positive relationship between literacy and economic development. (2) The ongoing globalization leads to an increased demand for foreign language proficiency to reduce search and information costs and overcome cultural barriers in the trade of services and goods and tourism. Against the background of scarce skill supply, employers are willing to pay significant wage premia, especially for global and local lingua franca. (3) For international migrants, destination language skills display both a prerequisite for and outcome of successful integration. Investments into destination language skills are highly rewarded by wage returns and higher employment probabilities and act as the medium of translation to apply pre-migration human capital in the destination country labor market.JEL Classification: J24, J31, J61

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Section: Destination Language Skills Of Migrantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Language and Labor Market Success

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2015

International Encyclopedia of the Social &Amp; Behavioral Sciences

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“…Moreover, we use for first-generation immigrants information on when they entered the country. We control for fluency in Hebrew that has been shown (e.g., Chiswick (1998), Berman et al (2003)) to be instrumental for a successful integration into the Israeli labor market.…”

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Happiness and financial satisfaction in Israel: Effects of religiosity, ethnicity, and war

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Ferrer-i-Carbonell

2010

Journal of Economic Psychology

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We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for Israeli citizens of Jewish and Arab descent. Our data set is the Israeli Social Survey (2006). We are especially interested in the impact of the religions Judaism, Islam and Christianity, where we are able to differentiate between individuals who vary in religiosity between secular and ultra-orthodox. We find a significant effect of religiosity on happiness. With respect to Jewish families it is most striking that the impact of family size on both life and financial satisfaction seems to vary with religiosity. This might be a reason for differentiation in family equivalence scales. For Arab families we did not find this effect. First-generation immigrants are less happy than secondgeneration immigrants, while there is no significant difference between second-generation families and native families. The effect of the Lebanon War is much less than expected.

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“…Borjas 1999, LaLonde and Topel 1997for overviews, or Friedberg 2000, Bratsberg and Ragan 2002, and Berman, Lang and Siniver 2003.…”

Section: Immigrant Language Skills and Labor Market Outcomesmentioning

confidence: 99%