The costs of babylon-linguistic distance in applied economics

Review of International Economics

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 354-369

  Isphording, Ingo Eduard ^a   Otten, Sebastian ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMETRICS; ECONOMICS; IMMIGRATION; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; LANGUAGE; TRANSACTION COST;

EID: 84876382565     PISSN: 09657576     EISSN: 14679396     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/roie.12041     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Adsera, Alicia and Mariola Pytlikova, "The Role of Language in Shaping International Migration, "IZA Discussion Papers No. 6333 (2012).
2. Anderson, James E. and Eric van Wincoop, "Trade Costs, "Journal of Economic Literature 42 (2004):691-751.
3. Bakker, Dik, André Müller, Viveka Velupillai, Søren Wichmann, Cecil H. Brown, Pamela Brown, Dmitry Egorov, Robert Mailhammer, Anthony Grant, and Eric W. Holman, "Adding Typology to Lexicostatistics: A Combined Approach to Language Classification, "Linguistic Typology 13 (2009):169-181.
4. Chiswick, Barry R. and Paul W. Miller, "The Endogeneity Between Language and Earnings: International Analyses, "Journal of Labor Economics 13 (1995):246-288.
5. Chiswick, Barry R. and Paul W. Miller, "English Language Fluency Among Immigrants in the United States, "in Solomon W. Polachek (ed.), Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 17, Oxford: JAI Press (1999):151-200.
6. Chiswick, Barry R. and Paul W. Miller, "Linguistic Distance: A Quantitative Measure of the Distance Between English and Other Languages, "Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 26 (2005):1-11.
7. Dörnyei, Zoltán and Richard Schmidt, Motivation and Second Language Acquisition, Technical Report/Second Language Teaching & Curriculum Center, Vol. 23, Honolulu, HI: Univ. of Hawaii (2001).
8. Dryer, Matthew S. and Martin Haspelmath, The World Atlas of Language Structures Online, Munich: Max Planck Digital Library. Available at http://wals.info (2011).
9. Dustmann, Christian and Arthur van Soest, "Language Fluency and Earnings: Estimation with Misclassified Language Indicators, "Review of Economics and Statistics 83 (2001):663-674.
10. Epstein, Gil S. and Ira N. Gang, "Migration and Culture, "in Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang (eds), Frontiers of Economics and Globalization: Migration and Culture, Vol. 8, Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing (2010):1-21.
11. Esser, Hartmut, "Migration, Language and Integration: AKI Research Review 4, "Social Science Research Center Berlin, Berlin. Available at http://bibliothek.wz-berlin.de/pdf/2006/iv06-akibilanz4b.pdf (2006).
12. Felbermayr, Gabriel J. and Farid Toubal, "Cultural Proximity and Trade, "European Economic Review 54 (2010):279-293.
13. Guiso, Luigi, Paola Sapienza, and Luigi Zingales, "Cultural Biases in Economic Exchange?" Quarterly Journal of Economics 124 (2009):1095-1131.
14. Hagen, Stephen, James Foreman-Peck, and Santiago Davila-Philippon, "ELAN: Effects on the European Economy of Shortages of Foreign Language Skills in Enterprise, "European Commission, Brussels. Available at http://ec.europa.eu/languages/languages-mean-business/files/elan-full-report_en.pdf (2006).
15. Haisken-DeNew, John P., and Joachim R. Frick, "Desktop Companion to the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP): Version 8.0, "German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin. Available at http://www.diw.de/documents/dokumentenarchiv/17/diw_01.c.38951.de/dtc.409713.pdf (2005).
16. Haisken-DeNew, John P. and Markus Hahn, "PanelWhiz: A Flexible Modularized Stata Interface for Accessing Large Scale Panel Data Sets, "Essen. Available at http://www.panelwhiz.eu/docs/PanelWhiz_Introduction.pdf (2006).
17. Holman, Eric W., Cecil H. Brown, Søren Wichmann, André Müller, Viveka Velupillai, Harald Hammarström, Sebastian Sauppe, Hagen Jung, Dirk Bakker, Pamela Brown, Oleg Belyaev, Matthias Urban, Robert Mailhammer, Johann-Mattis List, and Dmitry Egorov, "Automated Dating of the World's Language Families Based on Lexical Similarity, "Current Anthropology 52 (2011):841-875.
18. Hutchinson, William K., "Linguistic Distance as a Determinant of Bilateral Trade, "Southern Economic Journal 72 (2005):1-15.
19. Isphording, Ingo E., and Sebastian Otten, "Linguistic Distance and the Language Fluency of Immigrants, "Ruhr Economic Papers No. 274 (2011).
20. Isphording, Ingo E., and Sebastian Otten, "The Costs of Babylon-Linguistic Distance in Applied Economics, "Ruhr Economic Papers No. 337 (2012).
21. Kónya, István, "Modeling Cultural Barriers in International Trade, "Review of International Economics 14 (2006):494-507.
22. Ku, Hyejin and Asaf Zussman, "Lingua franca: The Role of English in International Trade, "Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 75 (2010):250-260.
23. Lewis, Paul M., Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th ed, Dallas, TX: SIL International (2009).
24. Llach, Agustín M. P., "An Overview of Variables Affecting Lexical Transfer in Writing: A Review Study, "International Journal of Linguistics 2 (2010):E2.
25. Lohmann, Johannes, "Do Language Barriers Affect Trade?" Economics Letters 110 (2011):159-162.
26. McCallum, John, "National Borders Matter: Canada-U.S. Regional Trade Patterns, "The American Economic Review 85 (1995):615-623.
27. Melitz, Jacques, "Language and Foreign Trade, "European Economic Review 52 (2008):667-699.
28. Petroni, Filippo and Maurizio Serva, "Measures of Lexical Distance Between Languages, "Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 389 (2010):2280-2283.
29. Reher, David and Miguel Requena, "The National Immigrant Survey of Spain: A New Data Source for Migration Studies in Europe, "Demographic Research 20 (2009):253-278.
30. Rose, Andrew K., "Do We Really Know that the WTO Increases Trade?" American Economic Review 94 (2004):98-114.
31. Serva, Maurizio, "Phylogeny and Geometry of Languages from normalized Levenshtein Distance, "Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY. Available at http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.4426v3 (2011).
32. Swadesh, Morris, "Lexico-statistic Dating of Prehistoric Ethnic Contacts: With Special Reference to North American Indians and Eskimos, "Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 96 (1952):452-463.
33. Tinbergen, Jan, Shaping the World Economy: Suggestions for an International Economic Policy, New York, NY: The Twentieth Century Fund (1962).
34. Tomz, Michael, Judith L. Goldstein, and Douglas Rivers, "Do We Really Know that the WTO Increases Trade? Comment, "American Economic Review 97 (2007):2005-2018.
35. Van der Silk, Frans W. P., "Acquisition of Dutch as a Second Language, "Studies in Second Language Acquisition 32 (2010):401-432.