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Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation

Galor, Oded - 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...

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Linguistic Skills and the Intergenerational Transmission of Language

Caminal, Ramon - 2018

We investigate the pattern of intergenerational transmission of language in a bilingual society. We consider the case … language affects language skills as well as the language parents speak to their children. Empirically, we exploit the natural … experiment generated by a language-in-education reform that introduced Catalan–Spanish bilingualism at school to estimate the …

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Post Schooling Human Capital Investments and the Life Cycle Variance of Earnings

Magnac, Thierry - 2013

We propose an original model of human capital investments after leaving school in which individuals differ in their initial human capital obtained at school, their rate of return, their costs of human capital investments and their terminal values of human capital at a fixed date in the future....

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Educational and Skills Mismatches among Immigrants : The Impact of Host Language Proficiency

Budría, Santiago - 2020

This paper asks to what extent host language proficiency can insure immigrants against the risk of ending up in … discriminates between three forms of mismatch, overqualification, under-qualification and over-skilling. Host language proficiency … that treatment effects are heterogeneous. English language proficiency among immigrants in Australia reduces the …

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The Risk-Return Trade-Off in Human Capital Investment

Christiansen, Charlotte; Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Joensen, … - 2008

In this paper we analyze investments in human capital assets in a way which is standard for financial assets, but not (yet) for human capital assets. We study mean-variance plots of human capital assets. We compare the properties of human capital returns using a performance measure and by using...

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Heterogeneity in the Production of Human Capital

Polachek, Solomon W. - 2013

We derive a tractable nonlinear earnings function which we estimate separately for each individual in the NLSY79 data. These estimates yield five important parameters for each individual: three ability measures (two representing the ability to learn and one the ability to earn), a rate of skill...

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The Dynamics of Return Migration, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wage Assimilation

Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2022

This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model where individuals differ in ability and location preference to evaluate the mechanisms that affect the evolution of immigrants' careers in conjunction with their re-migration plans. Our analysis highlights a novel form of selective return...

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The Evolution of the Returns to Human Capital in Canada, 1980-2005

Boudarbat, Brahim - 2010

We examine the evolution of the returns to human capital in Canada over the period 1980-2005. Our main finding is that returns to education increased substantially for Canadian men, contrary to conclusions reached previously. Most of this rise took place in the early 1980s and since 1995....

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Individualism, Human Capital Formation, and Labor Market Success

Hartinger, Katharina; Resnjanskij, Sven; Ruhose, Jens; … - 2022

of individualism by exploiting variation between migrants at the origin country, origin language, and person level …

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Linguistic Barriers in the Destination Language Acquisition of Immigrants

Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 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 …

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