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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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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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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
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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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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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The Costs of Babylon – Linguistic Distance in Applied Economics
Isphording, Ingo E.; Otten, Sebastian - 2012
economic transactions such as migration or international trade flows by imposing hurdles for second language acquisition and …
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
economic transactions such as migration or international trade flows by imposing hurdles for second language acquisition and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010556738
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Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation – An Analysis for Germany
Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K. - 2010
This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269990