Posts tagged with 'language'
March 20, 2024
Vocational language courses boost skills but struggle to directly improve job prospects
Research report analyzes impact on labor market integration
September 20, 2022
Babel’s Curse or Babel’s Blessing?
Studying in a foreign language may come at a cost
March 28, 2019
Peer diversity and college performance
Linguistic diversity does not harm native students but enhances non-native speaking students' performance
August 13, 2018
Challenges and successes in refugee integration
New insights from international economic research
March 15, 2017
How the origins of language structures may help explain current economic outcomes
A growing literature in economics has demonstrated that grammatical features of languages influence our economic decisions. For example, whether or […]
November 30, 2015
The effect of linguistic proximity on immigrants’ labor market performance
With the current increase of global mobility, immigration policy has jumped to the forefront of the political agenda. Immigration can […]
October 22, 2015
How language influences children’s economic behavior
Patience is an important trait in children that can make a difference for a lifetime. Many disciplines, including economics, have […]
January 13, 2015
Tradable quotas as a new way to deal with refugee inflows
How to handle the inflow of refugees to the European Union is one of the current hot topics in the […]
July 7, 2014
How foreign language classes shape migration within the EU
Given the large differences in youth unemployment rates across Europe, one would expect young people to migrate from countries with […]
May 11, 2013
Immigrant integration: Linguistic distance impedes literacy
Language acquisition of immigrants is crucially affected by the dissimilarity between the immigrant’s mother tongue and the language of the […]