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Linguistic traits and human capital formation
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2020
This research establishes the influence of linguistic traits on human behavior. Exploiting variations in the languages spoken by children of migrants with identical ancestral countries of origin, the analysis indicates that the presence of periphrastic future tense, and its association with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012157462
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Language and labor market success
Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2014
This article summarizes three different strands of the literature that address the labor market effects of language … ongoing globalization leads to an increased demand for foreign language proficiency to reduce search and information costs and … migrants, destination language skills display both a prerequisite for and outcome of successful integration. Investments into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418954
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Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2020
This research establishes the influence of linguistic traits on human behavior. Exploiting variations in the languages spoken by children of migrants with identical ancestral countries of origin, the analysis indicates that the presence of periphrastic future tense, and its association with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180087
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Linguistic barriers in the destination language acquisition of immigrants
Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Otten, Sebastian - 2014
There are various degrees of similarity between the languages of different immigrants and the language of their … destination country. This linguistic distance is an obstacle to the acquisition of a language, which leads to large differences in … the attainments of the language skills necessary for economic and social integration in the destination country. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340174
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Money counts, but so does timing : public investment and adult competencies
Cathles, Alison; Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2017
Numeracy skills of adults within and across 12 different countries in 2011 are strongly associated with the accumulated public investments in education received by these adults during their schooling. This paper confirms existing evidence that the timing of educational investments is important,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613140
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International migration and the economics of language
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2014
This paper provides a review of the research on the ‘economics of language' as applied to international migration. Its … primary focuses are on: (1) the effect of the language skills of an individual on the choice of destination among … international (and internal) migrants, both in terms of the ease of obtaining proficiency in the destination language and access to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230532
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Permanent residency and refugee immigrants' skill investment
Nielson Arendt, Jacob; Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin - 2023
residency to incentivize their labor market attachment and acquisition of local language skills. Contrary to what the reform … intended, the overall employment of those affected decreased while their average language proficiency remained largely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014315706
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Permanent residency and refugee immigrants' skill investment
Nielson Arendt, Jacob; Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin - 2023
residency to incentivize their labor market attachment and acquisition of local language skills. Contrary to what the reform … intended, the overall employment of those affected decreased while their average language proficiency remained largely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014320080
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The complementarity of language and other human capital : immigrant earnings in Canada
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 … complementarity between language skills and both schooling and preimmigration experience. That is, greater proficiency in the official … languages enhances the effects on earnings of schooling and pre-immigration labor market experience. Language proficiency and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406870
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The returns to occupational foreign language use : evidence from Germany
Heidland, Tobias - 2013
premia for applying their native language on the job in addition to those for English, their trade-fostering potential seems …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010192306