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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...

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Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation

Galor, Oded - 2020

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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 …

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Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation

Galor, Oded - 2020

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Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2021

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013311211

Impact of bilingual education on student achievement : language development programs should focus on quality rather than the language in which instruction is provided

Chin, Aimee - 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 … bilingual education programs (which use some native language instruction) and English-only programs are not significantly …

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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,...

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Lifecycle wages and human capital investments : selection and missing data

Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry; Roux, Sébastien - 2025

We derive wage equations with individual specific coefficients from a structural model of human capital investment over the life cycle. This model allows for interruptions in labour market participation and deals with missing data and attrition problems. We propose a new framework that deals...

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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 …

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Convergences in men's and women's life patterns : lifetime work, lifetime earnings, and human capital investment

Jacobsen, Joyce P.; Khamis, Melanie; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2014

The changes in women and men's work lives have been considerable in recent decades. Yet much of the recent research on gender differences in employment and earnings has been of a more snapshot nature rather than taking a longer comparative look at evolving patterns. In this paper, we use 50...

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