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 …

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 …

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 …

. Education matters more for women in terms of explaining earnings, whereas language skills are relatively more important for men. …

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 …

grammatical features of German dialects. These data are taken from a unique linguistic survey conducted between 1879 and 1888 in … 45,000 schools. Matching this information to 439 current German regions, we construct a dialect similarity matrix. Using …

nine large urban ethnic minorities: Zhuang, Hui, Manchurian, Tujia, Uighur, Miao, Tibetan, Mongol and Korean. It also asks …

groups. In contrast, Korean and Hui have a higher probability of migration than the majority. For people with an urban hukou …

groups. In contrast, Korean and Hui have a higher probability of migration than the majority. For people with an urban hukou …

Using records from a large public university, we examine the impact of Greek life on academic performance and salaries …. To isolate the causal effect of Greek life, we exploit a university policy prohibiting students from joining a Greek … reveal that Greek affiliation reduces student grades by 0.1-0.3 standard deviations. Greek effects are largest during the …