Language-skill complementarity: returns to immigrant language acquisition
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Language-Skill Complementarity: Returns to Immigrant Language Acquisition
We examine how language acquisition affects immigrant earnings growth for Soviet immigrants to Israel. Using retrospective information on linguistic proficiency to control for time-invariant heterogeneity in ability reveals that language complements high-skill occupations. Improved Hebrew accounts for 2/3 to 3/4 of the differential in earnings growth between immigrant and native programmers and...
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عنوان ژورنال: Labour Economics
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0927-5371
DOI: 10.1016/s0927-5371(03)00015-0