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Employers' Language Proficiency Requirements and Hiring of Immigrants
Linnéuniversitetet.
Uppsala Universitet.
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI). (AME)ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8887-5677
Number of Authors: 32025 (English)Report (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Labor markets in advanced economies have undergone substantial change due to globalization, technological improvements, and organizational changes, making language proficiency increasingly important even in less skilled jobs. Has this development led employers to shy away from hiring immigrants with limited host-country language skills? We shed light on this question by conducting a large-scale field experiment, where we introduce common second-language features in immigrants’ resumes. We also conduct employer surveys to interpret our experimental results. Our main finding is that language proficiency has a strong positive effect on being invited to a job interview, even in typical immigrant entry jobs.

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Stockholm: Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) , 2025. , p. 87
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SOFI Working Papers in Labour Economics ; 7/2025
Keywords [en]
language proficiency, immigrant hiring, field experiment
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Economics and Business
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Economics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-243054OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-243054DiVA, id: diva2:1956789
Available from: 2025-05-07 Created: 2025-05-07 Last updated: 2025-05-07

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