Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/69393 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 7118
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We study the effects of performance bonuses in immigrant language training for adults. A Swedish policy pilot conducted in 2009-2010 gave a randomly assigned group of municipalities the right to grant substantial cash bonuses to recently arrived migrants. The results suggest substantial effects on average student achievement. But these were fully driven by metropolitan areas; in other parts of Sweden performance was unaffected. The relative effects were larger for younger students but similar for men and women, and present for migrants from different parts of the world. The bonus had a less clear impact on enrollment, but there are indications that it may have increased the probability of progressing to bonus-awarding courses in metropolitan areas.
Subjects: 
immigration
language training
performance bonus
JEL: 
J08
J15
I24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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