Bei der Integration von Zuwanderern nimmt der Spracherwerb einen hohen Stellenwert ein. Die Sprachförderung ermöglicht erfolgreichen Arbeitsmarktzugang, Bildungsteilnahme und Interaktion mit der Gesellschaft und ist somit für die Zuwanderer, den Staat und die Gesellschaft unabdingbar. Durch...

Bei der Integration von Zuwanderern nimmt der Spracherwerb einen hohen Stellenwert ein. Die Sprachförderung ermöglicht erfolgreichen Arbeitsmarktzugang, Bildungsteilnahme und Interaktion mit der Gesellschaft und ist somit für die Zuwanderer, den Staat und die Gesellschaft unabdingbar. Durch...

When an agent’s motivation is sensitive to how his supervisor thinks about the agent’s competence, the supervisor has to take into account both informational and expressive contents of her message to the agent. This paper shows that the supervisor can credibly express her trust in the...

The adverse effects of unemployment are a cause for concern for all demographic groups but they will be most acute for those experiencing the highest unemployment rates. In particular, high levels of unemployment are observed for a range of immigrant groups across many countries. However, there...

This paper examines the role of culture in households' saving decisions. Exploiting the historical language borders within Switzerland, I isolate the effect of households' exposure to certain language groups from economic, institutional, demographic and geographic factors for a homogeneous and...

This paper examines the effects of a substantial change in publicly funded paid parental leave in Germany on child development and socio-economic development gaps. For children born before January 1, 2007, parental leave benefits were means-tested and paid for up to 24 months after childbirth....

Background of ¿pinned¿ images lifestyle advertising in social media -- Cutting through the clutter of mascots in indian marketing history : mascots in Indian marketing history -- Sociolinguistic effect on an advertising slogan : language as a conveyor of cultural characteristics : language as...

In vielen Großunternehmen stellt sich mit der Internationalisierung zunehmend das Problem festzulegen, in welchen Sprachen die unterschiedlichen Unternehmensbereiche miteinander kommunizieren sollen. Sollen mehrere Sprachen nebeneinander existieren - mit allen Nachteilen zeitraubender und...

This study explores sex differences in language and socio-emotional skills. It focuses on children 7 months old to 6 years old in Chile in 2012 and Nicaragua in 2013. A focus on young children allowed for ruling out a set of environmental and identity effects to explain the gap. Females had an...

There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina there has been a significant increase in immigrants especially those with limited English language skills and...

This paper analyzes the Hebrew language proficiency, probability of employment, and labor market earnings of immigrants in Israel. It uses the 2010/11 Immigrant Absorption Survey conducted by the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics. Unique features of the analysis include the study of...

This paper studies the educational consequences of language proficiency by investigating the relationship between dialect-speaking and academic performance of 5-6 year old children in the Netherlands. We find that dialect-speaking has a modestly negative effect on boys' language test scores. In...

Our paper studies the effects of dialect-speaking on job characteristics of Dutch workers, in particular on their hourly wages. The unconditional difference in median hourly wages between standard Dutch speakers and dialect speakers is about 10.6% for males and 6.7% for females. If we take into...

Our paper studies the effects of dialect-speaking on job characteristics of Dutch workers, in particular on their hourly wages. The unconditional difference in median hourly wages between standard Dutch speakers and dialect speakers is about 10.6% for males and 6.7% for females. If we take into...

This book introduces students to an approach to teaching business communication that centres on language, empowering them to go beyond "best practice" formulae or relying on intuition. Instead, it helps them understand how using language in particular ways can achieve particular effects, making...

An welchen Arbeitsstellen und von wem werden die meisten Sprachen gebraucht? Welche Sprachen werden bei der Arbeit am häufigsten verwendet? Welche Sprachen würden Personen gerne lernen, wenn sie ausreichend Zeit und Mittel zur Verfügung hätten? Und decken sich diese Sprachwünsche mit dem...

Este trabajo intenta comparar dos formulaciones alternativas de la ley de Menzerath para la relación entre dos indicadores lingüísticos (palabras por enunciado y fonemas por palabra) en una muestra de 50 idiomas. Las formulaciones alternativas son la función potencial (que es la...

En este trabajo utilizamos datos del Atlas Mundial de Estructuras Lingüísticas para una muestra de 100 idiomas y 60 características. Los valores de tales características son interpretados como variables binarias de complejidad, que luego se agrupan en cinco categorías (fonología,...

This paper studies the effect of sharing a common native language on international trade. Switzerland hosts three major native language groups which adjoin countries sharing the same native majority languages. In regions close to the internal language border the alternate major language is...

This article analyzes long-term value creation or destruction in mergers and acquisitions in the telecommunications sector. After characterizing the market targeted by the analysis (telecommunications) and discussing and selecting the most suitable long-term methodology, we will make an...

We investigate the interplay of language skills and immigrant stocks in determining bilateral FDI out-stocks of OECD reporting countries. Applying a Poisson panel estimator to 2004-2011 data, we find a robust positive effect of bilateral immigrants on bilateral FDI - provided that residents of...

We explore in an equilibrium framework whether games with multiple Nash equilibria are easier to play when players can communicate. We consider two variants, modelling talk about future plans and talk about past actions. The language from which messages are chosen is endogenous, messages are...

According to Chen's (2013) linguistic-savings hypothesis, languages which grammatically separate the future and the present (like English or Italian) induce less future-oriented behavior than languages in which speakers can refer to the future by using present tense (like German). We complement...

We investigate the interplay of language skills and immigrant stocks in determining bilateral FDI out-stocks of OECD reporting countries. Applying a Poisson panel estimator to 2004-2011 data, we find a robust positive effect of bilateral immigrants on bilateral FDI – provided that residents of...

We exploit the 1983 language-in-education reform that introduced Catalan alongside Spanish as medium of instruction in Catalan schools to estimate the labour market value of bilingual education. Identification is achieved in a difference-in-differences framework exploiting variation in exposure...