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Russian language skills and employment in the Former Soviet Union

Duncan, Alan S.; Mavisakalyan, Astghik - In: The economics of transition 23 (2015) 3, pp. 625-656

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Talking in the present, caring for the future : language and environment

Mavisakalyan, Astghik; Tarverdi, Yashar; Weber, Clas - In: Journal of comparative economics : the journal of the … 46 (2018) 4, pp. 1370-1387

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Gender in language and gender in employment

Mavisakalyan, Astghik - In: Oxford development studies 43 (2015) 4, pp. 403-424

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Paradise postponed : future tense and religiosity

Mavisakalyan, Astghik; Tarverdi, Yashar; Weber, Clas - 2020

argue that the rewards and punishments that incentivise religious behaviour are less effective for speakers of languages … that contain future tense marking. Consistent with this prediction, we show that speakers of future-tensed languages are …

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Returns to language skills in transition economies : speaking English has its benefits in transition countries but can it supersede Russian?

Mavisakalyan, Astghik - 2017

In many transition countries, the collapse of communism ushered in language reforms to adapt to the newfound independence from the Soviet Union and openness to the rest of the world. Such reforms may have implications for individuals’ economic opportunities, since foreign language proficiency...

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