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Returns to Local and Foreign Language Skills – Causal Evidence from Spain
Isphording, Ingo - 2013
This study examines the returns to foreign and local language skills of immigrants in the Spanish labor market. Different sources of endogeneity are addressed by deriving a set of novel instruments for language proficiency through a measure of linguistic dissimilarity. Using cross-sectional data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290798
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Disadvantages of Linguistic Origin – Evidence from Immigrant Literacy Scores
Isphording, Ingo - 2013
This study quantifies the disadvantage in the formation of literacy skills of immigrants that arises from the linguistic distance between mother tongue and host country language. Combining unique cross-country data on literacy scores with information on the linguistic distance between languages,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290801
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Disadvantages of Linguistic Origin – Evidence from Immigrant Literacy Scores
Isphording, Ingo - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2013
This study quantifies the disadvantage in the formation of literacy skills of immigrants that arises from the linguistic distance between mother tongue and host country language. Combining unique cross-country data on literacy scores with information on the linguistic distance between languages,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010617558
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Returns to Local and Foreign Language Skills – Causal Evidence from Spain
Isphording, Ingo - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2013
This study examines the returns to foreign and local language skills of immigrants in the Spanish labor market. Different sources of endogeneity are addressed by deriving a set of novel instruments for language proficiency through a measure of linguistic dissimilarity. Using cross-sectional data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010617560
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Making Dough or Baking Dough? Spousal Housework Responsibilities in Germany, 1992-2011
Procher, Vivien; Ritter, Nolan; Vance, Colin - 2014
- influence his or her contribution to housework? (2) If so, does the magnitude of this influence differ by gender? and (3) How … important are traditional gender roles on housework allocation? We address these issues by applying panel quantile regression …, with the latter effect being roughly equal across genders. At the same time, traditional gender roles also appear to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332850
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Making Dough or Baking Dough? Spousal Housework Responsibilities in Germany, 1992-2011
Procher, Vivien; Ritter, Nolan; Vance, Colin - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2014
- influence his or her contribution to housework? (2) If so, does the magnitude of this influence differ by gender? and (3) How … important are traditional gender roles on housework allocation? We address these issues by applying panel quantile regression …, with the latter effect being roughly equal across genders. At the same time, traditional gender roles also appear to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010860287
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The Returns to Language Skills in the US Labor Market
Isphording, Ingo; Sinning, Mathias - 2012
This paper uses data from the 2010 American Community Survey (ACS) to study the returns to language skills of child and adult migrants in the US labor market. We employ an instrumental variable strategy, which exploits differences in language acquisition profiles between immigrants from English-...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290710
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The Returns to Language Skills in the US Labor Market
Isphording, Ingo; Sinning, Mathias - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2012
This paper uses data from the 2010 American Community Survey (ACS) to study the returns to language skills of child and adult migrants in the US labor market. We employ an instrumental variable strategy, which exploits differences in language acquisition profiles between immigrants from English-...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010617555
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Who Does the Shopping? – German Time-use Evidence, 1996–2009
Procher, Vivien; Vance, Colin - 2013
panel methods to analyze, descriptively and econometrically, gender disparities in shopping behavior among couples using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290802
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Who Does the Shopping? – German Time-use Evidence, 1996–2009
Procher, Vivien; Vance, Colin - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2013
panel methods to analyze, descriptively and econometrically, gender disparities in shopping behavior among couples using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010617567