The impact of host language proficiency on employment outcomes among immigrants in Spain

Budría, Santiago; Colino, Alberto; Ibarreta, Carlos Martínez de

doi:10.1007/s10663-018-9414-x

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“…Gao and Smyth (2011) analyze the return to standard Mandarin among internal migrants in China and find a 40% return to language proficiency. Finally, in Spain, Budría and Swedberg (2014) show that the IV returns to host language knowledge for immigrants represent roughly 20%.…”

Section: Host Language Proficiency and Earningsmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…To provide a more detailed view, and on the account for the potential complementarity between schooling and language skills (Chiswick and Miller 2003;Casale and Posel 2011;Budría and Swedberg 2014), in this section, we conduct separate regressions for immigrants with different educational attainment. The results are reported in Table 5.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The impact of host language proficiency across the immigrants’ earning distribution in Spain

Budría

Ibarreta

Swedberg

2017

IZA J Develop Migration

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This paper explores the impact of Spanish language proficiency on immigrant earnings in Spain using an instrumental variable quantile regression approach. The impact is on average roughly 17.2% but varies substantially across the earning distribution. The return to destination language proficiency actually ranges from zero at the bottom quantiles to 30% at the top quantile of the earning distribution. These findings suggest that the benefits derived from host language knowledge are particularly important among individuals with stronger unobserved abilities and marketable skills and that language training policies targeted at specific immigrant population categories may be ineffective from a labor market earning perspective. JEL Classification: F22, J24, J61

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Section: Host Language Proficiency and Earningsmentioning

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Section: Ivqr Estimates Within Education Groupsmentioning

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The impact of host language proficiency across the immigrants’ earning distribution in Spain

Budría

Ibarreta

Swedberg

2017

IZA J Develop Migration

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“…As an external representation of individual ability, the degree of language ability reflects individuals' productivity (Budría & Swedberg, 2015;Thomsen, Gernandt, & Aldashev, 2009). Enterprises or employers may infer an employee's ability from the individual's language competency by waiving the possible adverse influence of language-led alienation and discrimination in the labor market, guaranteeing their employee's job opportunity and income (Chiswick & Miller, 1995;Dustmann & Fabbri, 2003).…”

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Human Capital and English Language Proficiency in the Chinese Context

Luo¹,

Daly²

2019

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The employment problem of college graduates has evoked concern around the world, which is particularly prominent in China in recent years. At the same time, English language proficiency of Chinese college students has been emphasized within their university academic requirements as well as from prospective employers. The consequent market pressure on Chinese college students to obtain language qualifications has created an environment where not only the utility, but also the symbolic value of English proficiency has become essential. Human capital theory describes the complex connection between language proficiency and employment, as a foreign language skill, English is similar to other human capital and has the potential for economic value. From the theoretical perspective for relationship between English language proficiency and employment of college graduates based on human theory, recommendations are made for further both scholarly research and practitioner policies, namely: National College English Teaching Syllabus, Regulations for Full-time Undergraduate Bachelor's Degree-granting, and Regulations for the Graduation Project.

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“…This problem usually leads to downward bias in the estimates of language effects on economic outcomes. Previous attempts to address both sources of bias have relied on instrument variables (Chiswick and Miller 1995;Angrist and Lavy 1997;Dustmann and Soest 2002;Dustmann and Fabbri 2003;Chin 2004, 2010;Di Paolo and Raymond 2012;Miranda and Zhu 2013;Budría and Swedberg 2015;Guven and Islam 2015). The common finding across these labour market studies is that the effect of language on earnings is underestimated in OLS regressions.…”

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The Effects of Language Skills on the Economic Assimilation of Female Immigrants in the United States

Silles

2018

The Manchester School

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This paper uses recent data from the American Community Survey between 2010 and 2015 to investigate the effect of language skills on women’s economic assimilation who immigrated to the United States as children. The problem of endogenous language acquisition and measurement error in the language variable is addressed utilizing the phenomenon that younger children learn languages more easily than older children to construct an identifying instrument. Two‐stage‐least‐squares estimates suggest that greater English proficiency has a positive effect on a number of indicators of economic assimilation of adult women including several measures of labor supply and earnings. A range of sensitivity tests are undertaken to check the validity of these results.

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The impact of host language proficiency on employment outcomes among immigrants in Spain

Cited by 25 publications

References 34 publications

The impact of host language proficiency across the immigrants’ earning distribution in Spain

The impact of host language proficiency across the immigrants’ earning distribution in Spain

Human Capital and English Language Proficiency in the Chinese Context

The Effects of Language Skills on the Economic Assimilation of Female Immigrants in the United States

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