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Breaking the language barrier? : exam fee subsidies and Spanish proficiency

Wright, Nicholas A.; Carter, Akeem - 2026

In this article, we evaluate the impact of a targeted fee subsidy program that reduced the registration cost of the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) Spanish exam-a standardized regional assessment for high school leavers seeking to demonstrate language proficiency. The subsidy...

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Language was always a companion of the empire

Husillos, Javier; Larrinaga, Carlos; Martinez Ahloy, Daniel - 2024

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Shift or replenishment? : reassessing the prospect of stable Spanish bilingualism across contexts of ethnic change

Manrique, Ruy; Mouw, Ted - 2023

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Does privacy and ease of use influence user trust in digital banking applications in Spain and Portugal?

Martínez-Navalón, Juan-Gabriel; … - 2023

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Linguistic dispossession in Colombia : the case of San Andres Island

Moya-Chaves, Deyanira S. - 2023

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Ore and empire : conquistadors to Guggenheims on the Camino Real

Stupich, Martin; Taylor, Michael Romero; Fahlman, Betsy; … - 2025

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La fonología del español argentino

Coloma, Germán - 2022

This paper describes the phonology of Spanish as it is spoken in Argentina. After considering the inventory of phonemes (both consonants and vowels) and their main allophones and phonological rules (including phoneme neutralizations and the use of stress as a distinctive element), there is a...

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La fonología del español argentino

Coloma, Germán - 2022

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Goed werkgeverschap voor kortverblijvende arbeidsmigranten : een onderzoek naar de werk- en woonsituatie : eindrapport

Heyma, Arjan; Vervliet, Tobias; Engelen, Mirjam; Meij, … - 2022

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Assessing mental health and technology use in the time of COVID-19 among farmworkers in the U.S. – Mexico border

Castor, Michaela Dakota; Hernandez, Nora; Orozco, Adriana - 2024

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Targeting high school scholarships to the poor : the impact of a program in Mexico

De Hoyos, Rafael E.; Attanasio, Orazio P.; Meghir, Costas - 2024

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Targeting high school scholarships to the poor : the impact of a program in Mexico

De Hoyos, Rafael E.; Attanasio, Orazio P.; Meghir, Costas - 2019

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Targeting High School Scholarships to the Poor : The Impact of a Program in Mexico

De Hoyos, Rafael E. - 2019

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Targeting High School Scholarships to the Poor : The Impact of a Program in Mexico

De Hoyos, Rafael E. - 2019

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The context of text : harmonizing multilingual texts of the WTO

Meena, Rishabha; Rao, Advaith - 2024

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Brexit : trade diversion due to trade policy uncertainty

Gutiérrez, Eduardo; Lacuesta, Aitor; Martín Machuca, … - 2024

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Media Markets and Localism : Does Local News En Español Boost Hispanic Voter Turnout?

Waldfogel, Joel - 2021

Since the dawn of broadcasting, and especially in the past decade, Americans have turned their attention from local to more distant sources of news and entertainment. While the integration of media markets will raise the private welfare of many consumers, a globalized information and...

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Is Spanish-Only Schooling Responsible for the Puerto Rican Language Gap?

Angrist, Joshua D.; Chin, Aimee; Godoy, Ricardo A. - 2021

Between 1898 and 1948, English was the language of instruction for most post-primary grades in Puerto Rican public schools. Since 1949, the language of instruction in all grades has been Spanish. We use this policy change to estimate the effect of English-intensive instruction on the...

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Is Spanish-Only Schooling Responsible for the Puerto Rican Language Gap?

Angrist, Joshua - 2006

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Occupational Selection in Multilingual Labor Markets

Quella-Isla, Núria; Rendon, Sílvio - 2021

In multilingual labor markets agents with high proficiency in more than one language may be selected into occupations that require high levels of skill in communicating with customers or writing reports in more than one language. In this paper we measure this effect in Catalonia, where two...

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Using Achievement Tests to Measure Language Assimilation and Language Bias Among Immigrant Children

Akresh, Richard; Redstone, Ilana - 2021

We use Woodcock Johnson III child assessment data in the New Immigrant Survey to examine language assimilation and test score bias among children of Hispanic immigrants. Our identification strategy exploits the test language randomization (Spanish or English) to quantitatively measure the degree...

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Migration misinformation in Spanish-language tweets during a pandemic

Donato, Katharine M.; Singh, Lisa; Arab, Ali; Jacobs, … - 2021

Authored by Katharine M. Donato, Lisa Singh, Ali Arab, Elizabeth Jacobs and Douglas Post, this Migration Research Series paper builds on prior studies of migration misinformation by analysing Twitter conversations in Spanish, the fourth most widespread language in the world. The paper assesses...

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Belizean varieties of Spanish : language contact and plurilingual practices

Fuller Medina, Nicté - 2020

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Do Gender-Neutral Job Ads Promote Diversity? Experimental Evidence from Latin America's Tech Sector

Del Carpio, Lucía; Fujiwara, Thomas - 2023

Gendered-grammar languages like Spanish are spoken by 39% of the world's population. In a field experiment in partnership with a Spanish-speaking online platform for technology positions, ads randomly selected to use gender-neutral language receive a larger share of female applicants for...

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Analysing Muda under COVID-19 pandemic : a case study in a Spanish supermarket

Morales-Contreras, Manuel F.; Suárez-Barraza, Manuel F.; … - 2023

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Globalization, Superstars, and the Importance of Reputation : Theory & Evidence from the Wine Industry

Gibbs, Michael - 2019

We develop a simple model of the effects of reputation on wine prices. An increasing fraction of consumers who are quot;naivequot; (less well informed about wine quality) results in a stronger sensitivity of wine prices to ratings of quality. We then use data on prices and Robert Parker's...

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Cómo entenderse en la Primera Vuelta al Mundo : las lenguas a bordo y en Oriente

Rodríguez-Ponga Salamanca, Rafael - 2022

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Taxing difference in Peru and New Spain (16th-19th century) : fiscal petitions negotiating social differences and belonging

Albiez-Wieck, Sarah - 2022

"This book addresses the negotiation of categorizations in colonial societies in Spanish America from a new vantage point: fiscality. In early modern empires (poll) taxes were a significant factor to organize and perpetuate social inequalities. By this, fiscal categorizations had very concrete...

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Entrepreneurship in Spain and Portugal

Barrachina Fernández, Mercedes; Del Carmen García … - 2022

There is an increasing interest in the literature for the characteristics of the entrepreneurial ecosystems and the impacts caused by their activities. Silicon Valley or Israel is widely known as the main entrepreneurial ecosystems, but there are a lot of different cities and countries which are...

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Stakeholder governance and private benefits : the case of politicians in Spanish cajas

Andrés, Pablo de; Garcia-Rodriguez, Inigo; … - 2022

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Pitching Non-English Language Research: A Dual-Language Application of the Pitching Research Framework

Faff, Robert W.; Shaob, Xuefeng; Alqahtani, Faisal; … - 2018

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La emigración de españoles al extranjero (2002-2011) : dimensiones y características geodemográficas

Romero Valiente, Juan Manuel - 2018

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Venting out : exports during a domestic slump

Almunia, Miguel; Antràs, Pol; López Rodríguez, David; … - 2018

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A statistical comparison between two texts to illustrate the phonetics of Spanish

Coloma, Germán - 2017

Following an idea proposed by Deterding (2006) for the English version of “The North Wind and the Sun”, this paper compares the standard Spanish version of that fable with an alternative text which corresponds to another fable, “The Boy who Cried Wolf”. The comparison is based on the...

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A statistical comparison between two texts to illustrate the phonetics of Spanish

Coloma, Germán - 2017

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Catalytic effect of capital transfers in a federal context : the case of Spanish regions

Vallés Giménez, Jaime; Zárate Marco, Anabel - 2017

There is a broad theoretical consensus on the effects of transfers (desired incentive impacts and induced adverse effects). But, as the literature review shows, there is not an accepted methodology for the empirical evaluation of these effects. The authors suggest a simple but rigorous empirical...

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El español, lengua internacional : proyección y economía: (en el V centenario de Nebrija)

Alonso, José Antonio; Álvarez Mella, Héctor - 2021 - Primera edición

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Une clé pour l'Europe : le débat agricole franco-espagnol et l'adhésion de l'Espagne à la CEE (1975-1982)

Molina García, Sergio - 2021

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Opinion shopping : partner versus firm-level evidence

García Osma, Beatriz; Gill de Albornoz Noguer, Belén; … - 2016 - Versión: mayo 2016

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Language Diversity in Urban Landscapes : An Econometric Study

Onofri, Laura; Nunes, Paulo A. L. D.; Cenoz, Jasone; … - 2014

This multidisciplinary study adopts econometric analysis for investigating how different characteristics determine the choice of the language used in the signs of a shopping street. We work with a dataset containing about 200 observations collected in the main shopping streets of the cities of...

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The effect of language use on the financial performance of microfinance banks : evidence from cross-border activities in 74 countries

Golesorkhi, Sougand; Mersland, Roy; Piekkari, Rebecca; … - 2019

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The role of psychic distance stimuli on the East-West FDI location structure in the EU : Evidence from Spanish MNEs

Jiménez, Alfredo; Durán Herrera, Juan José; Fuente … - 2013

Eastern Europe nowadays represents an important and attractive economic area for foreign direct investment. Determinants of investments have converged with those of other European countries. However, it has been argued that a differentiated East-West structure still exists in Europe. This study...

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La presencia de la banca española, francesa e italiana en el norte de áfrica tras la primavera árabe

Santos Miranda, Máximo - 2013

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La influencia económica y comercial de los idiomas de base española

2018 - Primera edición

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Disasters and community resilience : Spanish Flu and the formation of retail cooperatives in Norway

Rao, Hayagreeva; Greve, Henrich R. - 2018

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The use of english-language business and finance terms in European languages

Anglemark, Linnéa; John, Andrew - 2018

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Pitching non-English language research : a dual-language application of the Pitching Research Framework

Faff, Robert W.; Shaob, Xuefeng; Alqahtani, Faisal; … - 2018

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What drives the localization of spanish multinationals in developing and transition countries?

Alguacil Marí, María Teresa; Martí, Josep; Orts … - 2018

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The Complexity of Immigrant Generations: Implications for Assessing the Socioeconomic Integration of Hispanics and Asians

Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J - 2012

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The Impact of Language Proficiency on Immigrants' Earnings in Spain

Budría, Santiago - 2012

This article uses micro-data from the Spanish National Immigrant Survey to investigate the impact of Spanish language proficiency on immigrants' earnings. The results, based on Instrumental Variables (IV), point to a substantial earnings return to Spanish proficiency, of approximately 27%. This...

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