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Linguistic Diversity and Workplace Productivity

Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2019

thereby reduce productivity. We apply a new measure of languages' linguistic proximity to Norwegian linked employer …

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Jakiela, Pamela - 2020

Languages use different systems for classifying nouns. Gender languages assign nouns to distinct sex-based categories …,000 languages which together account for more than 99% of the world's population. We find a robust negative cross …-country relationship between prevalence of gender languages and women's labor force participation and educational attainment. We replicate …

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Educational and Skills Mismatches among Immigrants : The Impact of Host Language Proficiency

Budría, Santiago - 2020

children learn languages more easily than older ones. To differentiate between local average treatment effects (LATE) and …

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Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation

Galor, Oded - 2020

This research establishes the influence of linguistic traits on human behavior. Exploiting variations in the languages …

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The Impact of Language on Socioeconomic Integration of Immigrants

Zorlu, Aslan - 2018

This study examines the causal effects of Dutch language proficiency of immigrants from four main source countries on their labour market and social integration outcomes. Language proficiency appears ranked according to linguistic distance to The Netherlands, a ranking that even holds for the...

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Deprivation, Segregation, and Socioeconomic Class of UK Immigrants : Does English Proficiency Matter?

Aoki, Yu - 2018

This paper studies the causal effect of English proficiency on residential location outcomes and the socioeconomic class of immigrants in England and Wales, exploiting a natural experiment. Based on the phenomenon that young children learn a new language more easily than older children, we...

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The Effect of Language Training on Immigrants' Economic Integration : Empirical Evidence from France

Lochmann, Alexia - 2018

We examine the impact of language training on the economic integration of immigrants in France. The assignment to this training, offered by the French Ministry of the Interior, depends mainly on a precise rule: the training is provided if the test score of an initial language exam is below a...

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Labor Market Returns to Education and English Language Skills in the People's Republic of China : An Update

Asadullah, M. Niaz - 2018

We re-examine the economic returns to education in the People's Republic of China (PRC) using data from the China General Social Survey 2010. We find that the conventional ordinary least squares estimate of returns to schooling is 7.8%, while the instrumental variable estimate is 20.9%. The...

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The Bilingual Gap in Children's Language and Emotional Development

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2018

In this paper we examine whether – conditional on other family inputs – bilingual children achieve different outcomes in language and emotional development. Our data come from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) which allows us to analyze children's language and emotional development in...

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Linguistic Skills and the Intergenerational Transmission of Language

Caminal, Ramon - 2018

of Catalonia, where the two main speech communities, Spanish and Catalan, are of similar sizes, both languages are …

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