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Economic Returns to Speaking the Right Languages)? Evidence from Kazakhstan's Shift in State Language and Language of Instruction

Aldashev, Alisher; Danzer, Alexander M. - 2014

This paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan … bilingualism on earnings while Russian was the official state language in the 1990s. Surprisingly, the Kazakh language continues to …

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Economic Returns to Speaking the Right Language(s)? Evidence from Kazakhstan's Shift in State Language and Language of Instruction

Aldashev, Alisher; Danzer, Alexander M. - 2014

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427717

Economic Returns to Speaking the Right Language(s)? Evidence from Kazakhstan's Shift in State Language and Language of Instruction

Aldashev, Alisher; Danzer, Alexander M. - 2014

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435780

Economic Returns to Speaking the Right Language(s)? Evidence from Kazakhstan's Shift in State Language and Language of Instruction

Aldashev, Alisher; Danzer, Alexander M. - 2014

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Impact of bilingual education on student achievement

Chin, Aimee - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)

More than 4.4 million students enrolled in US public schools participate in English language learner programs because of linguistic barriers to learning in regular classrooms. Whether native language instruction should be used in these programs is a contentious issue. Recent studies, using...

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Time-varying occupational contents: An additional link between occupational task profiles and individual wages

Fedorets, Alexandra - 2011

By analyzing occupational task profiles, an occupational change can be split up into two components: (1) transferability of task portfolios between occupations and (2) change in the value of the occupation-employee match. Extending the task-based approach of Gathmann and Schönberg (2009) by...

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Changes in occupational demand structure and their impact on individual wages

Fedorets, Alexandra - 2011

This paper estimates wage losses arising due to changes in the structure of demand for occupations. The data on occupational changes made for the sake of adjustment to the changes in the demand structure come from the German reunification of 1990. Endogenous occupational changes are instrumented...

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The wage effects of schooling under socialism and in transition: Evidence from Romania, 1950 - 2000

Andren, Daniela; Earle, John S.; Sapatoru, Dana - 2004

We estimate the impact of schooling on monthly earnings from 1950 to 2000 in Romania. Nearly constant at about 3-4% during the socialist period, the coefficient on schooling in a conventional earnings regression rises steadily during the 1990s, reaching 8.5% by 2000. Our analysis finds little...

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Determinants of Bilingualism among Children

Chiswick, Barry R.; Gindelsky, Marina - 2014

This paper analyzes the determinants of bilingualism (i.e., speaks a language other than English at home) among … conducted overall, within genders, and within racial and ethnic groups. Bilingualism is more prevalent if the parents are … increases child bilingualism, while a higher level of parental education tends to decrease it. Children of Asian and especially …

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Does education really cause domestic violence? Revisiting the Turkish data

Akyol, Pelin; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2021

Using the 2008 Turkish National Survey of Domestic Violence against Women (NSDVW) and the 1997 compulsory schooling policy as an instrument for schooling, Erten and Keskin (2018, henceforth EK), published in AEJ-Applied Economics, find that women's education increases the psychological violence...

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