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Same same but different : dialects and trade
Lameli, Alfred; Nitsch, Volker; Südekum, Jens; Wolf, … - In: German economic review 16 (2015) 3, pp. 290-306
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The cost of migrating to a culturally different location
Falck, Oliver; Lameli, Alfred; Ruhose, Jens - 2014
Ever since Sjaastad (1962), researchers have struggled to quantify the psychic cost of migration. We monetize psychic cost as the wage premium for moving to a culturally different location. We combine administrative social security panel data with a proxy for cultural difference based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010412765
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Cultural Biases in Migration: Estimating Non-Monetary Migration Costs
Falck, Oliver; Lameli, Alfred; Ruhose, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Ever since Sjaastad (1962), researchers have struggled to quantify the psychic costs of migration. We monetize psychic cost as the wage premium for moving to a culturally different location. We combine administrative social security panel data with a proxy for cultural difference based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212574
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Why are educated and risk-loving persons more mobile across regions?
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; … - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 98 (2014) C, pp. 56-69
Why are better educated and more risk-friendly persons more mobile across regions? To answer this question, we use micro-data on internal migrants from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 2000–2006 and merge this information with a unique proxy for region-pair-specific cultural distances...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010743947
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Dialects, cultural identity and economic exchange
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2010
It has long been argued that economic phenomena are affected by culture. However, the causal effect of cultural ties on … exchange, and because it is hard to separate culture from other influences. In this paper, we address these issues by using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010575406
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Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange
Heblich, Stephan; Falck, Oliver; Lameli, Alfred; … - Department of Economics, University of Stirling - 2011
We study the effect of cultural ties on economic exchange using a novel measure for cultural identity: dialect similarity across regions of the same country. We evaluate linguistic micro-data from a unique language survey conducted between 1879 and 1888 in about 45,000 German schools. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838305
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The Cost of Migrating to a Culturally Different Location
Falck, Oliver; Lameli, Alfred; Ruhose, Jens - CESifo - 2014
Ever since Sjaastad (1962), researchers have struggled to quantify the psychic cost of migration. We monetize psychic cost as the wage premium for moving to a culturally different location. We combine administrative social security panel data with a proxy for cultural difference based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948845
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Same Same But Different: Dialects and Trade
Lameli, Alfred; Nitsch, Volker; Suedekum, Jens; Wolf, … - CESifo - 2013
finding as evidence for the effect of culture on trade. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877639
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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/10010266077
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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