IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'The impact of surplus skills on earnings: Extending the over-education model to language proficiency' in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 36, 263-275

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2575

The Critical Period Hypothesis for Language Learning: What the 2000 US Census Says

Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller

published as "A Test of the Critical Period Hypothesis for Language Learning" in: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2008, 29 (1), 16-29

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1755

Computer Skills, Destination Language Proficiency and the Earnings of Natives and Immigrants

Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2007, 5 (2), 129-157

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1726

The Linguistic and Economic Adjustment of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in the United States, 1980 to 2000

Barry R. Chiswick, Michael Wenz

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2006, 24, 179-216

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1433

Unilingual Versus Bilingual Education System: A Political Economy Analysis

Javier Ortega, Thomas P. Tangerås

revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2008, 6(5), 1078-1108

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1432

Are There Gender and Country of Origin Differences in Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes across European Destinations?

Alicia Adsera, Barry R. Chiswick

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20 (3), 495-526

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1419

Language Skills and Immigrant Adjustment: What Immigration Policy Can Do!

Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller

published in: Deborah Cobb-Clark and Siew-Ean Khoo (eds.), Public Policy and Immigrant Settlement, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006, 121-148

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1246

Linguistic Distance: A Quantitative Measure of the Distance Between English and Other Languages

Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller

published in: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2005, 26 (1), 1-11

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1238

The Linguistic and Economic Adjustment of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in the United States, 2000: A Preliminary Report

Barry R. Chiswick, Michael Wenz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1231

Where Immigrants Settle in the United States

Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller

published in: Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 2004, 6 (2), 185-197

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1216

Parents and Children Talk: The Family Dynamics of English Language Proficiency

Barry R. Chiswick, Yew Liang Lee, Paul W. Miller

published as 'Parents and Children Talk: English Language Proficiency within Immigrant Families' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2005, 3 (3), 243-268

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1098

Nonparametric Bounds on the Returns to Language Skills

Libertad González

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2005, 20 (6), 771-795

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1021

PISA Results: What a Difference Immigration Law Makes

Horst Entorf, Nicoleta Minoiu

published in: German Economic Review, 2005, 6(3), 355-376

IZA Discussion Paper No. 558

Enclaves, Language and the Location Choice of Migrants

Thomas K. Bauer, Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2005, 18 (4), 649–662