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The value of language skills
Grenier, Gilles - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
. Learning a new language is an investment in human capital. Migrants must learn the language of their destination country, but … have shown that fluency in a dominant language is important to economic success and increases economic efficiency. However …, maintaining linguistic diversity also has value since language is also an expression of people’s culture. …
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The value of language skills
Grenier, Gilles; Zhang, Weiguo - In: IZA World of Labor (2021)
. Learning a new language is an investment in human capital. Migrants must learn the language of their destination country, but … have shown that fluency in a dominant language is important to economic success and increases economic efficiency. However …, maintaining linguistic diversity also has value since language is also an expression of people's culture. …
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Does administrative status matter for urban growth? Evidence from present and former county capitals in East Germany
Heider, Bastian; Kauffmann, Albrecht; Rosenfeld, Martin … - 2016
Public sector activities are often neglected in the economic approaches used to analyze the driving forces behind urban growth. The institutional status of a regional capital is a crucial aspect of public sector activities. This paper reports on a quasi-natural experiment on county towns in East...
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Marketmaking Middlemen
Gautier, Pieter A.; Hu, Bo; Watanabe, Makoto - 2016
This paper develops a model in which market structure is determined endogenously by the choice of intermediation mode. We consider two representative business modes of intermediation that are widely used in real-life markets: one is a middleman mode where an intermediary holds inventories which...
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Cities and the structure of social interactions: Evidence from mobile phone data
Büchel, Konstantin; von Ehrlich-Treuenstätt, Maximilian - 2016
Social interactions are considered pivotal to urban agglomeration forces. This study employs a unique dataset on mobile phone calls to examine how social interactions differ across cities and peripheral areas. We first show that geographical distance is highly detrimental to interpersonal...
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Does Distance Determine Who Attends a University in Germany?
Spieß, C. Katharina; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2008
analyse this hypothesis by combining data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) with a database from the German …
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Using state level employment thresholds to explain Okun's Law
Herzog, Ryan W. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-26
In this paper we implement a non-dynamic panel threshold model for fifty U.S. states to better understand the factors determining changes in Okun's Law. We test for asymmetries in Okun's Law controlling for changes in industry employment. We find changes in output on unemployment are least...
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Understanding the Effects of Legalizing Undocumented Immigrants
Monras, Joan; Vázquez-Grenno, Javier; Elias Moreno, Ferran - 2017
This paper investigates the consequences of the legalization of around 600,000 immigrants by the unexpectedly elected Spanish government of Zapatero following the terrorist attacks of March 2004 (Garcia-Montalvo (2011)). Using detailed data from payroll-tax revenues, we estimate that each newly...
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EU referenda in the Baltics: understanding the results at the regional level
Hazans, Mihails - 2004
The papers analyses regional differences in EU referenda results in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. In each of the three countries, other things being equal, high income regions were significantly more pro-European than low-income ones, while regions with a high share of ethnic minorities were...
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Spanish regions and sustainable development: measurement of advances from rio to johannesburg through multidimensional synthetic indexes
Palmero, Federico Martín; Francos, Marcos Fernández; … - 2004
In the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), the bases for a world sustainable development were set. Ten years later it took place in Johannesburg the World Summit on Sustainable Development, where it was discussed about the fulfilled advances and it...
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