research on economics of language

Barry R. Chiswick

Research on the Economics of Languagea

Barry R. Chiswickb

Book: The Economics of Language: International Analyses, (with Paul W. Miller), Routledge, 2007.

Articles: 1. “Negative and Positive Assimilation: Skill Transferability and Linguistic Distance”

(with Paul W. Miller), IZA Discussion Papers, No. 20, January 2011. 2. “Matching Language Proficiency to Occupation: The Effect on Immigrants’ Earnings” (with Paul W. Miller), IZA Discussion Paper No. 2587, January 2007. 3. “Occupational Language Requirements and the Value of English in the United States Labor Market,” (with Paul W. Miller), Journal of Population Economics, 23(1) January 2010, pp. 353-372. 4. “A Test of the Critical Period Hypothesis in Language Learning,” (with Paul W. Miller), Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 29(1) 2008, pp. 16- 29. 5. “The Economics of Language for Immigrants: An Introduction and Overview,” in Terrence W. Wiley, Jin Sook Lee and Russell W. Rumberger, eds., The Education of Language Minority Immigrants in the United States, Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters, Ltd, 2009, pp. 72-91, and Julian Simon Lecture IV, IZA – Institute for the Study of Labor, Lecture 2007, Pamphlet 2008. 6. “Computer Usage, Destination Language Proficiency and the Earnings off Natives and Immigrants,” (with Paul W. Miller), Review of the Economics of the Household, 5(2), June 2007, pp. 129-157.

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Research on language issues or with substantial content on language issues. b

Professor and Chair Department of Economics Office: (202) 994-6150 George Washington University FAX: (202) 994-6147 2115 G Street, NW E-Mail: brchis@uic.edu Monroe Hall 340 Web Page: http:\\\\www.uic.edu\\~brchis Washington, DC 20052

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7. “Language Skills and Immigrant Adjustment: The Role of Immigration Policy,” (with Paul W. Miller), in Deborah Cobb-Clark and Siew-Ean Khoo (eds.), Public Policy and Immigrant Settlement, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 2006, pp. 121-148. 8. “Parents and Children Talk: English Language Proficiency within Immigrant

Families” (with Yew Liang Lee and Paul W. Miller), Review of Economics of the Household, 3, 2005, pp. 243-268. 9. “The Linguistic and Economic Adjustment of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in the United States,” (with Michael Wenz), Research in Labor Economics, 24, 2006, pp. 179-216. Paper presented at the Conference on “Immigration, Minorities and Social Exclusion: A Conference in Memory of Professor Tikva Lecker,” June 2004, Bar Ilan

University, Ramat Gan, Israel. Preliminary version presented at the “International Conference in Honor of the Retirement of Professor Mordechai Altsuler,” Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, December 2003.

10. “Immigrants’ Language Skills and Visa Category” (with Yew Liang Lee and Paul W. Miller), International Migration Review, 40 (2), Summer 2006, pp. 419-450.

11. “Linguistic Distance: A Quantitative Measure of the Distance Between English and Other Languages” (with Paul W. Miller), Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 26 (1), 2005, pp. 1-16.

12. “Family Matters: The Role of the Family in Immigrant’s Destination Language

Skills,” (with Yew Liang Lee and Paul W. Miller), Journal of Population Economics, 18, 2005, pp.631-7.

13. “Do Enclaves Matter in Immigrant Adjustment?” (with Paul W. Miller), City and Community, 4 (1), March 2005, pp. 5-36. Earlier version with the same title published in Hebrew in Rivon Le Kalkalah (The Economic Quarterly), 50(2), June 2003, pp. 285-325. Recipient of the Milken Institute Award for Distinguished Economic Research, 2001.

14. “Immigrants’ Language Skills: The Immigrant Experience in a Longitudinal Survey” (with Yew Liang Lee and Paul W. Miller), Annales d’Economie et de Statistique, Special Issue, “Discrimination and Unequal Outcomes,” N. 71-72, July/December 2003, pp. 97-139. 15. “Schooling, Literacy, and Numeracy and Labour Market Success” (with Yew Liang Lee and Paul W. Miller), Economic Record, 79(245), June 2003, pp. 165-181.

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16. “The Complementarity of Language and Other Human Capital: Immigrant Earnings in Canada” (with Paul W. Miller), Economics of Education Review, 22(2003), pp. 469-480. Revision of “The Double Negative Effect on Earnings of Limited Language Proficiency Among Immigrants in Canada” Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, Working Paper No. 148, February 1999.

17. “Immigrant Earnings: Language Skills, Linguistic Concentrations and the Business Cycle” (with Paul W. Miller), Journal of Population Economics, 15(1), January 2002, pp. 31-57. Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, Working Paper, No. 152, June 1999. Bureau of International Labor Affairs, U.S. Department of Labor, Working Paper No. 31, 1997. Reprinted in Klaus F. Zimmermann and Amelie Constant, eds., How Labor Migrants Fare, Springer-Verlay, 2004, pp. 223-250.

18. “A Model of Destination Language Acquisition: Application to Male Immigrants in

Canada” (with Paul W. Miller), Demography, 38(3), August 2001, pp. 391-409. Revision of “Language Practice Among Immigrants in Canada” (with Paul W. Miller) Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, Working Paper No. 149, February 1999.

19. “The Effect of Linguistic Distance and Country of Origin on Immigrant Language Skills: Application to Israel” (with Michael Beenstock and Gaston L. Repetto), International Migration, 39(3), September 2001, pp. 33-60.

20. “Immigrant Adjustment in Israel: Literacy and Fluency in Hebrew and Earnings” (with Gaston Repetto), in Slobodan Djajic, ed. International Migration: Trends, Policy and Economic Impact, New York: Routledge, 2001, pp.204-228, and in Sergio DellaPergola and Judith Even, eds, Papers in Jewish Demography, Jerusalem: Hebrew University, 2001, pp.351-378.

21. The Economic Cost to Native-Born Americans of Limited English Language Proficiency, (with Paul W. Miller), Report prepared for the Center for Equal Opportunity, August 1998.

22. “Indigenous Language Skills and the Labor Market in a Developing Economy: Bolivia” (with Harry A. Patrinos and Michael Hurst), Economic Development and Cultural Change, 48(2), January 2000, pp. 349-367.

23. “Immigration, Language and Multiculturalism in Australia,” (with Paul W. Miller), Australian Economic Review, 32(4), December 1999, pp. 369-385.

24. “Census Language Questions in North America” (with Paul W. Miller), Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 25(2), pp. 73-95.

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25. “Language Practice and the Economic Well-Being of Immigrants” (with Paul W. Miller), Policy Options/Options Politiques, May/Mai 1999, pp. 45-50.

26. “Language Skills and Earnings Among Legalized Aliens” (with Paul W. Miller), Journal of Population Economics. 12 (1), February 1999, pp. 63-91. (Bureau of International Labor Affairs, U.S. Department of Labor, Special Legalization Report, 1997). Reprinted in Klaus F. Zimmermann and Amelie Constant, eds., How Labor Migrants Fare, Springer-Verlay, 2004, pp. 279-306. 27. “Language Skill Definition: A Study of Legalized Aliens” (with Paul W. Miller), International Migration Review, 32(4), Winter 1998, pp. 877-900.

28. “English Language Fluency Among Immigrants in the United States” (with Paul W. Miller), Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 17, 1998, pp. 151-200. Paper presented at the American Economic Association Annual Meeting New Orleans, January 1997, and the Population Association of America Annual Meeting, Washington, March 1997.

29. “Hebrew Language Usage: Determinants and Effects on Earnings Among Immigrants in Israel” Journal of Population Economics, 11(2), May 1998, pp. 253-271. Paper presented at the Conference on Immigrant Absorption: The Interface Between Research and Policy Making, Technion, Haifa, June 1993. Falk Institute for Economic Research in Israel, Jerusalem, Discussion Paper, No. 97.09.

30. The Economics of Language: Application to Education (with Harry A. Patrinos), Training Manual, Human Development Network, World Bank, July 1996, Revised January 1998.

31. “The Economics of Language: The Roles of Education and Labor Market Outcomes” Human Capital Development Working Papers, (HCDWP 70), World Bank, September 1996.

32. “Soviet Jews in the United States: Language and Labor Market Adjustments

Revisited” in Noah Lewin-Epstein, Yaacov Roi and Paul Ritterband, eds., Russian Jews on Three Continents: Migration and Resettlement, London: Frank Cass Publishers, 1997, pp. 233-260. Reprinted in Elite Olshtain and Gabriel Horenczyk, eds., Language, Identity and Immigration, Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2000, pp. 275-300. Paper presented at 12th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, 1997.

33. “Literacy, Numeracy and the Labour Market” (with Paul W. Miller) Aspects of Literacy: Assessed Skill Levels Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Catalogue No. 4228.0, September 1997, pp. 73-79.

34. “The Languages of the United States: What is Spoken and What it Means” (with Paul W. Miller), READ Perspectives, Fall 1996, pp. 5-41.

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35. “Ethnic Networks and Language Proficiency Among Immigrants” (with Paul W. Miller), Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 9, March 1996, pp. 16-35. Reprinted in Klaus F. Zimmermann and Thomas K. Bauer, eds. The Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar Publishing, September 2002, Volume II, pp. 518-534, (Volume in the series The International Library of Critical Writing in Economics).

36. “The Endogeneity Between Language and Earnings: International Analyses” (with Paul W. Miller), Journal of Labor Economics, April 1995, pp. 245-287. Reprinted in Klaus F. Zimmermann and Thomas K. Bauer, eds. The Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar Publishing, September 2002. Volume II, pp. 475-517. (Volume in the series The International Library of Critical Writing in Economics.) Reprinted in Donald M. Lamberton, ed. The Economics of Language,. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2003, pp. 198-242. (Volume in the series The International Library of Critical Writing in Economics.)

37. “Language and Earnings Among Immigrants in Canada: A Survey” (with Paul W. Miller), in Sally Zerker, ed., Essays in Canadian Social Science, Magnum Press, 1994, pp. 247-2. Reprinted in Harriet Duleep and Phanindea Wunnava, eds., Immigration and Immigration Policy: Individual Skills, Family Ties and Group Identity, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1996, pp. 39-56.

38. “Language and Labor Supply: The Role of Gender Among Immigrants in Australia” (with Paul W. Miller), Research on Economic Inequality, Vol. 5, 1994, pp. 153-1.

39. “Language Choice Among Immigrants in a Multi-Lingual Destination” (with Paul W. Miller) Journal of Population Economics, Vol 7, No 2, 1994, pp. 119-131.

40. “Soviet Jews in the United States: An Analysis of their Linguistic and Economic Adjustment,” International Migration Review, 27 (2), Summer 1993, pp. 260-286, and Revon Le Kalkalah (Economic Quarterly, in Hebrew), July 1991, No 148, pp. 188-211.

41. “Language in the Immigrant Labor Market” (with Paul W. Miller), in Barry R.

Chiswick, ed., Immigration, Language and Ethnicity: Canada and the United States, Washington: American Enterprise Institute, 1992, pp. 229-296, and 471-476.

42. Immigration, Language and Ethnicity: Canada and the United States, editor, Washington: American Enterprise Institute, 1992.

43. “Speaking, Reading and Earnings Among Low-Skilled Immigrants”, Journal of Labor Economics, 9 (2) April 1991, pp. 149-170. Reprinted in Klaus F. Zimmermann and Thomas K. Bauer, eds. The Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar Publishing, September 2002 (Volume in the series The International Library of Critical Writing in Economics).

44. “Earnings in Canada: The Roles of Immigrant Generation, French Ethnicity and

Language” (with Paul W. Miller), Research in Population Economics, Vol. 6, 1988, pp. 183-228.

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