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Tax interactions among Belgian municipalities : does language matter?

Gérard, Marcel; Jayet, Hubert; Paty, Sonia - 2009

municipalities speaking different languages than between municipalities speaking the same language. That observation is particularly …

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Dialects, cultural Identity, and economic exchange

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - 2010

We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...

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Language rights : a welfare-economics approach

Wickström, Bengt-Arne - 2015

Distributions of language rights in multilingual settings are analyzed from a normative viewpoint in this chapter. If the cost structure of providing rights is concave in the number of beneficiaries, then a critical-mass criterion for the determination of an optimal rights structure results. It...

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The effect of language on economic behavior : experimental evidence from children's intertemporal choices

Sutter, Matthias; Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, … - 2015 - Date: 25 September 2015

According to Chen's (2013) linguistic-savings hypothesis, languages which grammatically separate the future and the … present (like English or Italian) induce less future-oriented behavior than languages in which speakers can refer to the … controlling for risk attitudes, IQ, family background, or when considering other languages. …

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A concise bibliography of language economics

Gazzola, Michele; Grin, François; Wickström, Bengt-Arne - 2015

The following pages are devoted to a bibliography which, though not exhaustive, provides an extensive set of references to several categories of literature in language economics. It consolidates the respective literature lists used by the authors over the years in their research and teaching....

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Language as a renewable resource : import, dissipation, and absorption of innovations

Wickström, Bengt-Arne - 2012

The structural stability of different languages subject to the import of external elements is analyzed. We focus on the …

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Cultural integration and export variety overlap across countries

Egger, Peter; Lassman, Andrea - 2014

This paper assesses the role of a larger degree of common language use between the populations of two countries on the so-called extensive product margin of trade. We focus on the overlap of products exported or imported between any pair of countries. The results suggest that the effect of...

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Economic returns to speaking the right language(s)? : evidence from Kazakhstan's shift in state language and language of instruction

Aldashev, Alisher; Danzer, Alexander M. - 2014

This paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan, a multi-ethnic country with complex ethnic settlement patterns that has switched its official state language from Russian to Kazakh. Using two newly assembled data sets, we...

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Speaking in numbers : the effect of reading performance on math performance among immigrants

Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2015

-at-arrival and the linguistic distance between origin and destination country languages. Using four PISA waves, we find a strong …

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Same same but different : dialects and trade

Lameli, Alfred; Nitsch, Volker; Südekum, Jens; Wolf, … - 2013

significantly more with each other than countries using different languages, holding other factors constant. In this paper, we show …

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