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Dialects, cultural identity, and economic exchange
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - 2010
We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269659
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Are There Gender and Country of Origin Differences in Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes across European Destinations?
Adsera, Alicia; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2004
. Education matters more for women in terms of explaining earnings, whereas language skills are relatively more important for men. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262167
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Environmental regulation and competitiveness: Evidence from Romania
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2010
According to the pollution haven hypotheses differences in environmental regulation affect trade flows and plant location. Specifically, environmental stringency should decrease exports and increase imports of dirty goods. This paper estimates a gravity model to establish whether the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269931
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Do non-economic quality of life factors drive immigration?
Lewer, Joshua J.; Pacheco, Gail; Rossouw, Stephanié - 2009
This paper contributes to the immigration literature by generating two unique non-economic quality of life (QOL) indices and testing their role on recent migration patterns. Applying the generated quality of life indices in conjunction with other independent welfare measures to an extended...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271304
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On the pro-trade effects of immigrants
Bratti, Massimiliano; De Benedictis, Luca; Santoni, Gianluca - 2012
provinces coupled with the absence of cultural (e.g. language) or historical (colonial ties) attractors for immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287654
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Educational Production in East Asia : The Impact of Family Background and Schooling
Woessmann, Ludger - 2003
East Asian students regularly take top positions in international league tables of educational performance. Using internationally comparable student-level data, I estimate how family background and schooling policies affect student performance in five high-performing East Asian economies. Family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261886
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Language Skills and Immigrant Adjustment : What Immigration Policy Can Do!
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2004
This study provides an account of the dynamics of the dominant language adjustment process among immigrants in … language skills in immigrant selection. A difference between differences approach is used to isolate the impacts of these … category, educational attainment and age at migration impact on immigrant?s language skills. The increased English Proficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262160
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Immigrant Adjustment in Israel: Literacy and Fluency in Hebrew and Earnings
Chiswick, Barry R.; Repetto, Gaston - 2000
This paper is an analysis of the determinates of Hebrew language speaking and writing skills and the determinates of … migration and if many others in the area in which the respondent lives speak the same origin language. Country of origin and … primary or only language and who can write a letter in Hebrew earn about 20 percent more than those who do neither …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262386
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The economics of language: an introduction and overview
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2008
This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that … language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and … determinants of destination language proficiency among immigrants. This is based on Exposure, Efficiency and Economic Incentives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268618
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Testing mundell's intuition of endogenous OCA theory
Warin, Thierry; Wunnava, Phanindra V.; Janicki, Hubert P. - 2008
This paper presents an empirical assessment of the endogenous optimum currency area theory. Frankel and Rose (1998) study the endogeneity of a currency union through the lens of international trade flows. Our study extends Frankel and Rose's model by using FDI flows to test the original theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268540