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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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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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Migration response to an immigration shock: Evidence from Russia's aggression against Ukraine
Zuchowski, David - 2023
Russia's attacks against Ukraine have triggered massive and unexpected migration movements. In this paper, I examine … the impact of the inflow of Ukrainians that resulted from Russia's aggression in 2014 on local migration patterns in … internal and international out-migration of the Polish population. I provide supportive evidence that the decrease in out-migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014456424
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Parental Impact on Attitude Formation - A Siblings Study on Worries about Immigration
Brenner, Jan - 2007
The existing literature on attitudes towards immigration has not accounted for the potential effect of unobservable home education on attitude formation. Yet, factors such as parents' knowledge, their morals, and their weltanschauung are likely to influence the attitudes of the next...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264694
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The refugee wave to Germany and its impact on crime
Dehos, Fabian T. - 2017
Does refugee migration cause crime? I address this question drawing on recent refugee migration to Germany during the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011800302
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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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Disadvantages of Linguistic Origin – Evidence from Immigrant Literacy Scores
Isphording, Ingo - 2013
migration, confirming the linguistic Critical Period hypothesis. Assimilation in literacy scores is moderate and does not offset … Adoleszenz vorhersagt. Der steigende Einfluss der linguistischen Distanz mit steigendem Alter bei Migration unterstützt diese …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290801
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Immigration and electoral outcomes: Evidence from the 2015 refugee inflow to Germany
Bredtmann, Julia - 2020
This paper investigates the effects of the 2015 mass inflow of refugees to Germany on electoral outcomes. Specifically, using unique data on refugee populations and their type of accommodation, I analyze how local exposure to refugees affects the outcomes of the March 2016 state election - an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012501321
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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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Disadvantages of Linguistic Origin – Evidence from Immigrant Literacy Scores
Isphording, Ingo - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2013
migration, confirming the linguistic Critical Period hypothesis. Assimilation in literacy scores is moderate and does not offset …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010617558