Arbeitspapier
Language Skills and Labor Market Performance of Immigrants in the Netherlands
Many immigrants in the Netherlands have poor Dutch language skills. They face problems in speaking and reading Dutch. Our paper investigates how these problems affect their labor market performance in terms of employment, hours of work and wages. We find that for female immigrants language problems have significantly negative effects on hourly wages but not on employment probability and hours of work. For male immigrants language problems do not affect employment probability, hours of work or hourly wages.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CReAM Discussion Paper Series ; No. 05/15
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
- Thema
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Language skills
immigrants
labor market performance
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Yao, Yuxin
van Ours, Jan C.
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London
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London
- (wann)
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2015
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Yao, Yuxin
- van Ours, Jan C.
- Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London
Entstanden
- 2015