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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CReAM Discussion Paper Series ; No. 05/15

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
Thema
Language skills
immigrants
labor market performance

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Yao, Yuxin
van Ours, Jan C.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London
(wo)
London
(wann)
2015

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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

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