Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/295513 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
CReAM Discussion Paper Series No. 05/15
Publisher: 
Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London, London
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
Language skills
immigrants
labor market performance
JEL: 
J24
J15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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