The UK imports many doctors from abroad, where medical training and experience might be different. This study attempts to understand how drug prescription behaviour differs in English GP practices which have larger or smaller numbers of foreign-trained GPs. Results show that in general practices...

In this paper we show that individual preferences for immigration are also shaped by specific non-economic factors. In order to account for non-economic differences in a broader sense, we rely on linguistic relativity hypothesis according to which differences in grammatical structures may induce...