Look who's talking: On the heterogeneous returns to foreign language use at work among natives and migrants in Europe.

Autor/inn/en	Wang, Zhiling; Graaff, Thomas de; Nijkamp, Peter
Institution	USA / General Land Office
Titel	Look who's talking: On the heterogeneous returns to foreign language use at work among natives and migrants in Europe. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Kuck mal, wer da spricht: Über die heterogenen Erträge der Fremdsprachennutzung bei der Arbeit unter Einheimischen und Migranten in Europa.
Quelle	Maastricht (2017), 44 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	GLO discussion paper. 104
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Kommunikation; Europäisches Haushaltspanel; Arbeitsbedingungen; Kommunikation; Mehrsprachigkeit; Muttersprache; Sprache; Umgangssprache; Unternehmen; Qualifikation; Arbeitsanforderung; Inländer; Einkommensunterschied; Qualifikationsanforderung; Europäische Union; Arbeitsanforderung; Sprache; Umgangssprache; Fremdsprachenkenntnisse; Mehrsprachigkeit; Muttersprache; Einkommensunterschied; Inländer; Arbeitsbedingungen; Einkommenseffekt; Unternehmen; Qualifikation; Qualifikationsanforderung; Europäische Union; Migrant
Abstract	"We examine the heterogeneous impacts of foreign language use at work on earnings of both native-born workers and foreign-born workers, using a longitudinal survey, viz. the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) running from 1994 to 2001. Our findings are the following. First, for native-born workers with a tertiary diploma, using a foreign language at work is found to have an unambiguously positive impact on their earnings (2% on average). Second, for foreign-born workers, returns to foreign language use at work is highly complementary to education. Foreign language users below the upper secondary educational level earn significantly less (¡8%) than those who use the local language at work. Third, with regard to language types, a linguistically distant foreign language gives native-born workers the highest wage premium, while the use of EU official languages pays off the most for foreign-born workers. Fourth, our results do not show evidence that the lack of local language knowledge of low-educated migrants causes these results, as immigrants for whom the mother tongue is similar to the local language show a similar pattern." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2018/2