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100			_aSchmid, Lukas _949741
245			_aThe impact of host language proficiency on migrants' employment outcomes
260			_aThe American Economic Review: Insights
300			_a5(4), Dec, 2023: p.477-493
520			_aThis paper estimates the economic gains from proficiency in the host country's language on migrants' employment outcomes by exploiting the exogenous placement of refugees to Swiss cantons and a sharp language border dividing German- and French-speaking regions. Using administrative data on African refugees who applied for Swiss asylum between 2008 and 2017, I compare French-speaking refugees assigned to the French-speaking region to French-speaking refugees assigned to the German-speaking region and adjust for common regional differences with outcomes from English-speaking African refugees. The results suggest that language proficiency more than doubles the employment level in the first five years after arrival.- Reproduced https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aeri.20220386
773			_aThe American Economic Review: Insights
906			_aMIGRATION
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