The Return to English in a Non-English Speaking Country: Russian Immigrants and Native Israelis in Israel

Lang, Kévin; Siniver, Erez

doi:10.3386/w12464

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“…Berman, Lang and Siniver (2003) and Lang and Siniver (2006) find evidence of languageskill complementarity in the Israeli context. Immigrant workers in high-skilled occupations received larger wage increases when they learned Hebrew and English (on top of their own native language, Russian).…”

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“…Two studies that estimate the effect of a colonial language are Angrist and Lavy (1997), who estimate the return to French-language skills in Morocco, and Levinsohn (2007), who estimates the returns to speaking English in South Africa. Two that estimate the effect of foreign languages that do not have a colonial past in the country are Saiz and Zoido (2005) and Lang and Siniver (2006). Saiz and Zoido estimate the returns to Spanish, French and other foreign languages among U.S. college graduates.…”

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The Returns to English-Language Skills in India

Azam

Chin

Prakash³

2013

Economic Development and Cultural Change

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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 ABSTRACTThe Returns to English-Language Skills in India * India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has expanded due to globalization in recent decades. It is widely believed that there are sizable economic returns to English-language skills in India, but the extent of these returns is unknown due to lack of a microdata set containing measures of both earnings and English ability. In this paper, we use a newly available data set -the India Human Development Survey, 2005 -to quantify the effects of English-speaking ability on wages. We find that being fluent in English (compared to not speaking any English) increases hourly wages of men by 34%, which is as much as the return to completing secondary school and half as much as the return to completing a Bachelor's degree. Being able to speak a little English significantly increases male hourly wages 13%. There is considerable heterogeneity in returns to English. More experienced and more educated workers receive higher returns to English. The complementarity between English skills and education appears to have strengthened over time. Only the more educated among young workers earn a premium for English skill, whereas older workers across all education groups do.JEL Classification: J31, J24, O15

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Section: Heterogeneity In Returns To Englishmentioning

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The Returns to English-Language Skills in India

Azam

Chin

Prakash³

2013

Economic Development and Cultural Change

191

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“…Previous evidence suggests that the return to FL skills is still positive when estimated by using either the individual fixed-effects or instrumental variable methods (see Saiz & Zoido, 2005;Lang & Siniver, 2009;Ginsburgh & Prieto-Rodríguez, 2011, among others). In our case, the stability of the results regarding returns to English skills supports our argument that the earnings premium associated with an increasing level of competences in this FL should not be entirely driven by omitted variable bias.…”

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Returns to Foreign Language Skills in a Developing Country: The Case of Turkey

Paolo

Tansel

2013

SSRN Journal

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Abstract:This paper analyzes the economic value of foreign languages in Turkey, which is a country characterized by fast economic and social development. We find positive earnings returns to proficiency in English and Russian, which increase with the level of competence. French and German skills are also positively rewarded, although their return seems mostly linked to the likelihood to hold specific occupations. On the contrary, knowing Arabic does not generate an earnings premium. Focusing on English, we check for heterogeneous returns along the conditional earnings distribution. The results are qualitatively invariant when we account for misclassification errors in self-reported English skills.

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“…First, the majority of studies focuses on returns to the language of the destination country of immigrants, starting with early work by Carliner (1981) and McManus et al (1983), and concluding in IV estimates of language skill returns by Chiswick and Miller (1995), Dustmann and van Soest (2002) and Bleakley and Chin (2004). Second, a variety of studies addressed the positive labor market e ects of speaking a second foreign language in general (Ginsburgh and Prieto-Rodriguez, 2007;Garrouste, 2008;Williams, 2006), or in the context of immigration by Toomet (2011) and Lang and Siniver (2009).…”

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