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A Macro-Level Analysis of Adult-Age Language Learning

Übelmesser, Silke - 2017

covers German language learning in 77 countries (including Germany) for 1992-2006. Fixed-effects regressions show that … language learning in Germany. Additionally, trade flows are strongly associated with language learning in non-EU high …This article investigates the macro-level drivers of adult-age language learning. We construct a new dataset that …

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Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - 2021

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...

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Genetic Distance and International Migrant Selection

Krieger, Tim - 2015

migration for low-skilled migrants. Results are robust to the inclusion of sending and destination country fixed effects …

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Distance, Globalization, and International Trade

Borchert, Ingo - 2017

For a long time globalization could be seen everywhere but in gravity estimates. We offer evidence how globalization affects manufacturing trade over the period 1986-2006 and show that, on average, the effect of distance has fallen whereas the effects of proximity and regional trade agreements...

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International Emigrant Selection on Occupational Skills

Patt, Alexander - 2017

that Mexican migrants to the United States have higher manual skills and lower cognitive skills than non-migrants …

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Self-Confirming Immigration Policy

Giordani, Paolo - 2012

We study immigration policy in a small receiving economy under self-selection of migrants. We show that a non … (crowd in) skilled migrants and thus confirm initial beliefs. This self-fulfilling mechanism sustains the endogenous …

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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox and Health Convergence

Constant, Amelie - 2017

The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...

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