Foreign languages and their impact on unemployment
Using a large European data set, I investigate the impact of knowing foreign languages on unemployment for the first time. The focus is on natives (not on immigrants). I find that (1) knowing a foreign language reduces the probability of being unemployed by at least 3.4 percentage points; (2) female...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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05 May 2017
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Labour
Year: 2017, Volume: 31, Issue: 3, Pages: 265-287 |
| ISSN: | 1467-9914 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/labr.12097 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/labr.12097 Verlag, Volltext: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/labr.12097 
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| Author Notes: | Alejandro Donado |
| Summary: | Using a large European data set, I investigate the impact of knowing foreign languages on unemployment for the first time. The focus is on natives (not on immigrants). I find that (1) knowing a foreign language reduces the probability of being unemployed by at least 3.4 percentage points; (2) females benefit more than males from learning foreign languages; (3) English and German tend to have a larger and more robust impact on unemployment than French, Spanish, and Italian; (4) but the impact of all these five languages varies considerably across countries. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 01082018 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1467-9914 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/labr.12097 |