This paper is an analysis of the determinates of Hebrew language speaking and writing skills and the determinates of … primary or only language and who can write a letter in Hebrew earn about 20 percent more than those who do neither … earnings among adult male Jewish immigrants in Israel, using the 1972 Census of Israel. Among other findings, Hebrew speaking …

the language proficiency of immigrants by exploiting the fact that the initial placement of guest-workers after WWII was … several data sets, we find a small but robust and significant negative effect of ethnic concentration on immigrants' language … German-speakers would increase only modestly even under the counterfactual scenario of a regionally equal distribution of …

This report introduces two of the most successful industrial development models of the modern time the Japanese as a … leader and the South Korean as its follower. The objective is to review the industrialization process in these two economies …

historical flows of German, Norwegian, and domestic migrants in the US and document that climate sorting also holds within …

influence of reading performance on math performance, highlighting the importance of early language support for immigrants for …

present (like English or Italian) induce less future-oriented behavior than languages in which speakers can refer to the … future by using present tense (like German). We complement Chen's approach with experimentally elicited time preference data … from a bilingual city in Northern Italy. We find that German-speaking primary school children are about 46% more likely …

This paper studies the educational consequences of language proficiency by investigating the relationship between … modestly negative effect on boys' language test scores. In addition, we study whether there are spillover effects of peers … neither Dutch-speaking children nor dialect-speaking children are affected by the share of dialect-speaking peers in the …

This article summarizes three different strands of the literature that address the labor market effects of language … ongoing globalization leads to an increased demand for foreign language proficiency to reduce search and information costs and … migrants, destination language skills display both a prerequisite for and outcome of successful integration. Investments into …

We present experimental evidence from a bilingual city in Northern Italy on whether the language spoken by a partner in …, but that the gap between cooperation among in-group members and cooperation towards children speaking another language is … considerable and increasing with age. This gap is due to both, in-group favoritism and language group discrimination. …