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Decolonization, property rights and language conflicts
Dasgupta, Indraneel; Neogi, Ranajoy Guha - 2017
We model political contestation over school language policy, within linguistic communities where weak property rights protection leads to high decentralized expropriation. We show that improvements in governance institutions that facilitate property rights protection might exacerbate such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731981
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434518
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Language skills and immigrant adjustment : what immigration policy can do!
Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor);  … - 2004
This study provides an account of the dynamics of the dominant language adjustment process among immigrants in Australia using the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia, which comprises two cohorts of immigrants that arrived in Australia around five years apart. There are two special...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002520714
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Economics of minority groups: labour market returns and transmission of indigenous languages
Fuente Stevens, Diego de la; Pelkonen, Panu - 2021
This study demonstrates a series of links between minority language skills, their economic return and their transmission across generations. Using a detailed matching procedure and different data sources, we estimate the likelihood of being employed for bilingual versus monolingual men for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012588923
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Language proficiency and labour market performance of immigrants in the UK
Dustmann, Christian; Fabbri, Francesca - 2000
This paper uses two recent UK surveys to investigate labour market performance, the determinants of language proficiency, and the effect of language on earnings and employment probabilities of non-white immigrants. Our results show that language acquisition, employment probabilities, as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333280
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How much language is enough? : some immigrant language lessons from Canada and Germany
DeVoretz, Don J.; Hinte, Holger; Werner, Christiane - 2002
Germany and Canada stand at polar ends of the scientific debate over language integration and ascension to citizenship. German naturalization, as of January 2000, contains an explicit language criterion for naturalization. The first German immigration act that will presumably come into effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412723
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The effect of choice options in training curricula on the supply of and demand for apprenticeships
Jansen, Anika; Grip, Andries de; Kriechel, Ben - 2016
curriculum on supply of and demand for apprenticeship training. Modernizations of training curricula provide us with a quasi … when they have more choice options in the training curriculum because of (1) the higher productivity of graduates who have … 2014. We find that a more heterogeneous curriculum increases both firms' supply of and students' demand for training places. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450887
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Parents and children talk : the family dynamics of English language proficiency
Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor); Lee, Yew Liang (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
"This paper extends the analysis of the acquisition of destination language proficiency among immigrants by explicitly incorporating dynamics among family members -- mother, father and children. Single equation, bivariate, and four-state (multivariate) probit analyses are employed. Immigrant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002157943
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Linguistic distance : a quantitative measure of the distance between English and other languages
Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002226072
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The critical period hypothesis for language learning : what the 2000 US census says
Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor);  … - 2007
"A critical period for language learning is often defined as a sharp decline in learning outcomes with age. This study examines the relevance of the critical period to English proficiency among immigrants in the US. It uses microdata from the 2000 US Census, a model of language acquisition from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003446801