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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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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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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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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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New Digital Technologies and Heterogeneous Employment and Wage Dynamics in the United States: Evidence from Individual-Level Data
Fossen, Frank M.; Sorgner, Alina - 2019
We investigate heterogeneous effects of new digital technologies on the individual-level employment- and wage dynamics in the U.S. labor market in the period from 2011-2018. We employ three measures that reflect different aspects of impacts of new digital technologies on occupations. The first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005943
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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Labor Markets in Developing Countries: A New Method with an Illustration for Lao PDR and Viet Nam
Carbonero, Francesco; Davies, Jeremy; Ernst, Ekkehard; … - 2021
AI is transforming labor markets around the world. Existing research has focused on advanced economies but has neglected developing economies. Different impacts of AI on labor markets in different countries arise not only from heterogeneous occupational structures, but also from the fact that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882520
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AI, Skill, and Productivity: The Case of Taxi Drivers
Kanazawa, Kyogo; Kawaguchi, Daiji; Shigeoka, Hitoshi; … - 2022
We examine the impact of Articial Intelligence (AI) on productivity in the context of taxi drivers. The AI we study assists drivers with finding customers by suggesting routes along which the demand is predicted to be high. We find that AI improves drivers' productivity by shortening the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470440
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Labor Market Prospects, Search Intensity and the Transition from College to Work
van Vuuren, Aico; van der Klaauw, Bas; Berkhout, Peter - 2004
In this paper we develop a structural model for job search behavior of students entering the labor market. The model includes endogenous search effort and on-the-job search. Since students usually do not start a regular job before graduation but start job search earlier, our model is non...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261923
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Combining Micro and Macro Unemployment Duration Data
van den Berg, Gerard J.; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2000
We combine micro and macro unemployment duration data to study the effects of the business cycle on the outflow from unemployment. We allow the cycle to affect individual exit probabilities of unemployed workers as well as the composition of the total inflow into unemployment. We estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262334