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Autor/in | Isphording, Ingo E. |
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Titel | Returns to foreign language skills of immigrants in Spain. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Die Erträge der Fremdsprachenkenntnisse von Einwanderern in Spanien. |
Quelle | In: Labour : review of labour economics and industrial relations, 27 (2013) 4, S. 443-461
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Beigaben | grafische Darstellungen |
Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 1121-7081; 1467-9914 |
DOI | 10.1111/labr.12020 |
Schlagwörter | Bildungsertrag; Deutsch; Fremdsprachenkenntnisse; Englisch; Französisch; Migration; Einkommenseffekt; Lohn; Lohnhöhe; Berufserfolg; Auswirkung; Arbeitnehmer; Ausländer; Spanien |
Abstract | This study examines the returns to foreign language skills of immigrants in the Spanish labor market. Measurement error and endogeneity issues are addressed by deriving a set of novel instruments for foreign language proficiency through a measure of linguistic dissimilarity. Using crosssectional data from the 2007 National Immigrant Survey of Spain (NISS), returns to language skills are estimated separately for English, German, and French proficiency. Foreign language proficiency produces high returns, which appear to be mediated through the channel of occupational choice. The results are discussed against the background of a severe foreign language skills shortage in the Spanish economy. Immigrants may deal as a supplier of foreign language proficiency in the short run. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku). |
Erfasst von | Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg |
Update | 2014/2 |