labor market performance of immigrants across gender related to duration in the destination, schooling, age at immigration … those in Sweden, Denmark, Luxembourg or Spain the worst, particularly among non-EU born migrants. Gender differences are …. Education matters more for women in terms of explaining earnings, whereas language skills are relatively more important for men. …

This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that … language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and … determinants of destination language proficiency among immigrants. This is based on Exposure, Efficiency and Economic Incentives …

means capitalism’s rise (and potential peak) should be visible in the word frequency of written language. For example, as … economics language peaked during the 1980s, and has since declined. Ominously, this peak coincides with an uptick in the … popularity of biblical language. In simple terms, it seems that we (anglophones) are in the midst of an ideological transition. …

This paper examines the role of culture in households' saving decisions. Exploiting the historical language borders … within Switzerland, I isolate the effect of households' exposure to certain language groups from economic, institutional … French-speaking part. In line with the existing literature, I show that these differences across language regions are …

We provide a large scale within-country analysis of the effect of language future time reference (FTR) on the choice of …'s characteristics, linguistic features other than FTR, and whether individuals maintain their native language or switch to one of the …

increased over the next decade. Among Jews and among non-Jews, there were only small gender differences in the proportions in … the high level occupations. Thus, religion was more important than gender in explaining occupational patterns. American …

This paper reviews the literature on gender and culture. Gender gaps in various outcomes (competitiveness, labor force … literature has argued that gender differences in a variety of outcomes could reflect underlying cultural values and beliefs. This … article reviews the literature on the relevance of culture in the determination of different forms of gender gap. I examine …

by genre and gender, and motivations for location, especially in New York.For this, we have constructed a yearly data set …