are consistent with the theoretical possibility that gendered language activates gender schemata in the minds of speakers …This study establishes the influence of sex-based grammatical gender on gendered violence. We demonstrate a … statistically significant relationship between gendered language and the incidence of intimate partner violence in a cross …

This research establishes empirically that existing cross-language variations in the structure of the future tense and … the presence of grammatical gender affected human capital accumulation. Exploiting variations in the dominant languages … ancestry is (i) higher if the dominating language at home has a periphrastic future tense, and (ii) lower for women exposed …

The globalization of labour markets makes language skills one of the key competences required by employers nowadays …. Our purpose is to estimate the wage premium from foreign language skills (FLS) earned by the Poles. We also want to find …, because the Polish language is not used for international communication, while as much as 58% of Poles command at least one …

first augment a model of occupational choice to study the implications of language proficiency on the cross … opposite. Consistent with the hypothesized asymmetric role of language in the transferability of previously acquired cognitive … and manual skills, these discrepancies are larger among immigrants with limited language fluency. …

We examine the heterogeneous impacts of foreign language use at work on earnings of both native-born workers and … 2001. Our findings are the following. First, for native-born workers with a tertiary diploma, using a foreign language at …, returns to foreign language use at work is highly complementary to education. Foreign language users below the upper secondary …

This paper identifies a new source of differences in religiosity: the presence of future tense marking in language. We … different language. …

In a world increasingly globalized, multiple language skills can create more employment opportunities. Several … countries include language training programs in active labor market programs for the unemployed. We analyze the effects of a … language training program on the re-employment probability and hourly wages of the unemployed simultaneously, using highquality …

by Immigrants' (SPVA) for the years 1991, 1994, 1998, 2002, we examined the impacts of social contacts and Dutch language … mastery of the Dutch language enhance immigrants'economic performances. The effects are much stronger for immigrants with low …-ethnic contact on employment status. To deal with the endogeneity between Dutch language ability and earnings, an interaction term …

language proficiency and labor market earnings of male and female immigrants to the United States. Design … missionary activity of both Protestants and Catholics on an immigrant’s English language proficiency using a linear probability … with a higher concentration of Protestant missionaries tend to exhibit higher levels of English language proficiency and …

allocated to an unfamiliar language environment. The differences are driven by growth rather than gestation and manifest in a 2 ….9 percentage point difference in low birth weight incidence. We find substantial dose-response relationships in terms of language … French-(Italian-) speaking destinations, but not vice versa. Contrasting the language match with co-ethnic networks, we find …