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The costs of Babylon : linguistic distance in applied economics
Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Otten, Sebastian - 2012
economic transactions such as migration or international trade flows by imposing hurdles for second language acquisition and … its merits in two different applications. First, the effect of linguistic distance in the language acquisition of … of Spain. Across countries, linguistic distance is negatively correlated with reported language skills of immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580162
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Learn German, buy German? : language-learning opportunities abroad and exports
Fieles-Ahmad, Omar Martin; Huber, Matthias - 2021
effect that language learning opportunities abroad have on German exports. We employ a gravity model of trade with a single … this effect is confined to institutes offering language training services, which suggests that language requirements and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012592169
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Learn German, buy German? : language-learning opportunities abroad and exports
Fieles-Ahmad, Omar Martin; Huber, Matthias - In: The world economy : the leading journal on … 45 (2022) 10, pp. 3031-3058
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Dialects, cultural Identity, and economic exchange
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - 2010
; language ; culture ; internal migration ; gravity ; Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003939149
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Dialects, cultural identity, and economic exchange
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - 2010
; language ; culture ; internal migration ; gravity ; Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003939183
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Dialects, cultural identity, and economic exchange
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008904979
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Dialects, cultural identity, and economic exchange
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stefan; Lameli, Alfred; … - In: Journal of urban economics 72 (2012) 2/3, pp. 225-239
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009658028
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Dialects, cultural identity and economic exchange
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008933858
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Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange
Falck, Oliver - 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/10013147865
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Dialects, cultural identity, and economic exchange
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010210014