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Linguistic barriers in the destination language acquisition of immigrants

Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Otten, Sebastian - 2014

There are various degrees of similarity between the languages of different immigrants and the language of their destination country. This linguistic distance is an obstacle to the acquisition of a language, which leads to large differences in the attainments of the language skills necessary for...

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Language and labor market success

Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2014

This article summarizes three different strands of the literature that address the labor market effects of language-related human capital. (1) A general importance is demonstrated in the empirical evidence on earnings and employment effects of literacy as the ability to productively use written...

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Geographical origins and economic consequences of language structures

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2016

This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...

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Geographical roots of the coevolution of cultural and linguistic traits

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2018

This research explores the geographical origins of the coevolution of cultural and linguistic traits in the course of human history, relating the geographical roots of long-term orientation to the structure of the future tense, the agricultural determinants of gender bias to the presence of...

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Linguistic skills and the intergenerational transmission of language

Caminal, Ramón; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Di Paolo, Antonio - 2018

We investigate the pattern of intergenerational transmission of language in a bilingual society. We consider the case of Catalonia, where the two main speech communities, Spanish and Catalan, are of similar sizes, both languages are official, and each one enjoys the protection of a different...

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Gendered language

Jakiela, Pamela; Ozier, Owen - 2020

Languages use different systems for classifying nouns. Gender languages assign nouns to distinct sex-based categories …

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Linguistic traits and human capital formation

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2020

This research establishes the influence of linguistic traits on human behavior. Exploiting variations in the languages spoken by children of migrants with identical ancestral countries of origin, the analysis indicates that the presence of periphrastic future tense, and its association with...

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Decolonization, property rights and language conflicts

Dasgupta, Indraneel; Neogi, Ranajoy Guha - 2017

of why languages and cultures of the colonizers continue to play a dominant role in the educational systems of most post …

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Linguistic distance, networks and migrants' regional location choice

Bredtmann, Julia; Nowotny, Klaus; Otten, Sebastian - 2017

This paper analyzes the interaction between migrant networks and linguistic distance in the location choice of migrants … to the EU at the regional level. We test the hypothesis that networks and the ability to communicate in the host country … networks have a positive effect on the location decisions while the effect of linguistic distance is negative. We also find a …

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Religion and innovation

Bénabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - 2015

In earlier work (Bénabou, Ticchi and Vindigni 2013) we uncovered a robust negative association between religiosity and patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states, with and without controls. In this paper we turn to the individual level, examining the relationship between...

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