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Linguistic Distance and the Language Fluency of Immigrants
Isphording, Ingo E.; Otten, Sebastian - 2011
We use a newly available measure of linguistic distance developed by the German Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology to explain heterogeneity in language skills of immigrants. This measure is based on an automatical algorithm comparing pronunciation and vocabulary of language...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287352
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Linguistic Distance and the Language Fluency of Immigrants
Isphording, Ingo E.; Otten, Sebastian - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2011
We use a newly available measure of linguistic distance developed by the German Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology to explain heterogeneity in language skills of immigrants. This measure is based on an automatical algorithm comparing pronunciation and vocabulary of language...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321168
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Linguistic diversity in the classroom, student achievement, and social integration
Bredtmann, Julia; Otten, Sebastian; Vonnahme, Christina - 2018
In this article, we analyze whether non-native speakers in the classroom affect the educational achievement and social integration of migrant and native students. In contrast to previous studies, which mainly examine the effect of the share of immigrant pupils, we focus on language heterogeneity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984957
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The intergenerational transmission of gender role attitudes: Evidence from immigrant mothers-in-law
Bredtmann, Julia; Höckel, Lisa Sofie; Otten, Sebastian - 2017
intergenerationally transmitted gender role attitudes also explain economic outcomes of individuals other than immediate relatives …. Focusing on daughters-in-law, we examine whether the gender role attitudes of foreign-born mothers-in-law affect the fertility … positively related to the gender role attitudes in her mother-in-law's country of origin. Employing a new identification strategy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011787975
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Remittances and the brain drain: Evidence from microdata for Sub-Saharan Africa
Bredtmann, Julia; Martínez Flores, Fernanda; Otten, … - 2016
Research on the relationship between high-skilled migration and remittances has been limited by the lack of suitable microdata. We create a unique cross-country dataset by combining household surveys from five Sub-Saharan African countries that enables us to analyze the effect of migrants'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559321
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Linguistic distance, networks and migrants' regional location choice
Bredtmann, Julia; Nowotny, Klaus; Otten, Sebastian - 2017
This paper analyzes the interaction between migrant networks and linguistic distance in the location choice of migrants to the EU at the regional level. We test the hypothesis that networks and the ability to communicate in the host country language, proxied by linguistic distance, are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011764719
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The Costs of Babylon – Linguistic Distance in Applied Economics
Isphording, Ingo E.; Otten, Sebastian - 2012
Linguistic distance, i.e. the dissimilarity between languages, is an important factor influencing international economic transactions such as migration or international trade flows by imposing hurdles for second language acquisition and increasing transaction costs. To measure these costs, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287350
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The Costs of Babylon – Linguistic Distance in Applied Economics
Isphording, Ingo E.; Otten, Sebastian - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2012
Linguistic distance, i.e. the dissimilarity between languages, is an important factor influencing international economic transactions such as migration or international trade flows by imposing hurdles for second language acquisition and increasing transaction costs. To measure these costs, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010556738
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Getting What (Employers Think) You're Worth – Evidence on the Gender Gap in Entry Wages among University Graduates
Bredtmann, Julia; Otten, Sebastian - 2010
economists. However, up to now empirical evidence on gender differentials of labor market entrants and the determinants of their … representative German university, to investigate whether - even for such a homogeneous group of labor market entrants - a gender gap … major part of this gap remains unexplained by gender differences in observable characteristics. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273570
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Competition and Gender Prejudice: Are Discriminatory Employers Doomed to Fail?
Weber, Andrea Maria; Zulehner, Christine - 2009
According to Becker's (1957) famous theory on discrimination, entrepreneurs with a strong prejudice against female workers forgo profits by submitting to their tastes. In a competitive market their firms lack efficiency and are therefore forced to leave. We present new empirical evidence for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277089