Lehrgänge zum "Erlernen" interkultureller Kompetenz boomen in Zeiten globalisierter Unternehmensstrategien. Interkulturelle Kompetenz geht jedoch weit über die reine Fachkompetenz, das Aneignen von kompatiblen Verhaltensweisen hinaus. Es geht vielmehr um eine generelle Haltung des Respekts...

Bis dato gibt es nur wenige Arbeitnehmer in Deutschland, die aus dem Ausland stammen: Über die Hälfte der Befragten gaben in der Akademie-Studie 2015 an, höchstens ein paar Mitarbeiter oder Kollegen zu haben, auf die dies zutrifft. Bei fast 40 Prozent ist es bei keinem einzigen der Fall....

In vielen Großunternehmen stellt sich mit der Internationalisierung zunehmend das Problem festzulegen, in welchen Sprachen die unterschiedlichen Unternehmensbereiche miteinander kommunizieren sollen. Sollen mehrere Sprachen nebeneinander existieren - mit allen Nachteilen zeitraubender und...

Studies that investigate the effect of the regional ethnic composition on immigrant outcomes have been complicated by the self-selection of ethnic minorities into specific neighbourhoods. We analyse the impact of own-ethnic concentration on the language proficiency of immigrants by exploiting...

We introduce the notion of language disenfranchisement which arises if the number of EU working languages is reduced. We use the data on language proficiency in EU and show that, in spite of the widespread knowledge of English, the retention of French and German as working languages in essential...

This paper is an analysis of the English-language proficiency and labor market earnings of Soviet Jewish immigrants to the United States from 1965 to 2000, using the 2000 Census of Population. Comparisons are made to similar analyses using the 1980 and 1990 Censuses. A consistent finding is that...

This paper develops a scalar or quantitative measure of the ?distance? between English and a myriad of other (non-native American) languages. This measure is based on the difficulty Americans have learning other languages. The linguistic distance measure is then used in an analysis of the...

Germany and Canada stand at polar ends of the scientific debate over language integration and ascension to citizenship. German naturalization, as of January 2000, contains an explicit language criterion for naturalization. The first German immigration act that will presumably come into effect on...

We analyze various normatively determined distributions of language rights in multilingual settings. A general model for the analysis of language rights over time in a model with overlapping generations is set up. This model is then first used to find efficient allocations of rights in the...