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Occupational selection in multilingual labor markets: the case of Catalonia

Quella, Núria; Rendon, Silvio - In: International Journal of Manpower 33 (2012) July, pp. 918-937

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to measure the effect that knowing the Catalan language has on individuals’ comparative advantage to perform certain jobs in Catalonia (Spain), where Catalan and Spanish coexist. Design/methodology/approach – Using census data for 1991 and 1996, and...

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The impact of total liberalization on domestic air transport on the social welfare and on the dynamics of competition : comparison between United States and the European Union

Zbidi, Karim - HAL - 2003

Since the lst of April 1997 date of the implementation of the third package of the liberalization, air transport, within the european Union has become totally liberalized. In the United States the deregulation of domestic air traffic was earlier and faster since it took place in October 1978...

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The evolution processes of DNA sequences, languages and carols

Hauck, Jürgen; Henkel, Dorothea; Mika, Klaus - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 293 (2001) 3, pp. 540-548

are approached in few cases. Most letters of the natural languages and some music notes are at the borders of the …

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The Origins of Technolinguistic Diversity

Michalopoulos, Stelios - School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study - 2011

This study explores the determinants of ethnolinguistic diversity within as well as across countries shedding light on its geographic origins. The empirical analysis conducted across countries, virtual countries and pairs of contiguous regions establishes that geographic variability, captured by...

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THE IMPACT OF LANGUAGES ON THE ONLINE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT

ELENA, MUSEANU; MARIANA, COANCA - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2010) 1, pp. 113-120

This paper deals with an analysis of the English language, as lingua franca of the Internet, mainly online business environment. If a business has already developed a Web site, it is important to translate the site into the target language of a particular foreign market. It sounds easy, but is a...

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The Contribution of Economists to the Study of Language Issues.

Grin, F. - Institut d'Economie et Econométrie, Université de Genève - 1996

This paper reviews the epistemological and methodological underpinnings of economic approaches to language issues, and proposes a definition of the economics of language as a field of research in its own right. It also introduces the contributions gathered in a special issue of the...

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Geometrical aspects in the distribution of languages and urban settlements

Gomes, M.A.F - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 295 (2001) 1, pp. 9-16

A discussion of certain geometrical aspects in the distribution of living languages as well as in the distribution of … the distribution of languages and in the distribution of urban settlements is made and a conjecture about n(s) is advanced. …

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Multiple language usage and earnings in Western Europe

Williams, Donald R. - In: International Journal of Manpower 32 (2011) July, pp. 372-393

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to estimate the return to multiple language usage in the workplace. Design/methodology/approach – This article aims to estimate the effect that using an additional language at work has on earnings for a sample of workers in the European Community...

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International business complexity and the internationalization of languages

Selmier, W. Travis; Oh, Chang Hoon - In: Business Horizons 55 (2012) 2, pp. 189-200

influence of languages has been underappreciated in international business. We address this paucity by integrating literature … costs of languages. While we recognize that languages represent both a tool in international economic transactions and a … among major trade languages; however, we find that communication costs are much more important in FDI than in international …

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Mapping the online communication patterns of political conversations

Borondo, J.; Morales, A.J.; Benito, R.M.; Losada, J.C. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 414 (2014) C, pp. 403-413

information. Finally, we propose methods to analyze the use of different languages, finding a clear trend from sympathizers of …

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