The Role of Language in Shaping International Migration

Adserà, Alı́cia; Pytlíková, Mariola

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“…4 Studies of internal migration that use aggregate inter and intraregional population flows also emphasize the existence of budget constraints (Phan and Coxhead, 2010, for Vietnam;Golgher, 2012, 2 Most theories on bilateral migration movements emphasize "pull" and "push" factors with a particular focus on the potential increase in the value of individual human capital (Sjaastad, 1962). Nonetheless, recent empirical research also demonstrates the importance of noneconomic factors such as distance and cultural links (Belot and Hatton, 2008), language (Adsera and Pytlikova, 2012), and demographic forces and network effects (Mayda, 2010). 3 See also McKenzie and Rapoport's 2010 analysis of migration networks' role in migrant selection with respect to education.…”

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Out-migration, wealth constraints, and the quality of local amenities

Dustmann¹,

Okatenko²

2014

Journal of Development Economics

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Using a simple theoretical model, we show that the level of migration costs relative to wealth determines the form of the relation between income and migration intentions, which can be monotonically decreasing, increasing, or inverse U-shaped. Using unique individual level data, covering three geographic regions-sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America-we show that migration intentions do indeed respond to individual wealth, and that the patterns differ across the country groups studied in a manner compatible with the predictions of our model. Further, contentment with various dimensions of local amenities plays an important role for migration decisions. JEL: O15, R23, J61

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Out-migration, wealth constraints, and the quality of local amenities

Dustmann¹,

Okatenko²

2014

Journal of Development Economics

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“…To see this, refer again to the bottom of Table 3 which reports the residual variation in SB used for identification. This metric is cut in half as we move from column (2) to column (4), implying a correlation between language structure and the usual country-level proxies of gender roles 14 Alternatively, we checked the robustness of our results to measures of linguistic distance between languages from Adsera & Pytlikova (2015), including a Linguistic proximity index constructed using data from Ethnologue, and a Levenshtein distance measure developed by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. This data covers 42 languages out of the 63 in our regression sample.…”

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Decomposing Culture: An Analysis of Gender, Language, and Labor Supply in the Household

2017

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Despite broad progress in closing many dimensions of the gender gap around the globe, recent research has shown that traditional gender roles can still exert a large influence on female labor force participation, even in developed economies. This paper empirically analyzes the role of culture in determining the labor market engagement of women within the context of collective models of household decision making. In particular, we use the epidemiological approach to study the relationship between gender in language and labor market participation among married female immigrants to the U.S. We show that the presence of gender in language can act as a marker for culturally acquired gender roles and that these roles are important determinants of household labor allocations. Female immigrants who speak a language with sex-based grammatical rules exhibit lower labor force participation, hours worked, and weeks worked. Our strategy of isolating one component of culture reveals that roughly two thirds of this relationship can be explained by correlated cultural factors, including the role of bargaining power in the household and the impact of ethnic enclaves, and that at most one third is potentially explained by language having a causal impact.

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“…21 This choice is grounded on the argument that linguistic distance serves as a good proxy for cultural distance (Guiso et al, 2009;Adsera and Pytlikova, 2012). Moreover, such an approach avoids the compli-cation arising with a nationality-based index weighting each nationality with some sort of "cultural" distance.…”

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Ethnic diversity and firms' export behavior

Parrotta

Sala

2016

European Economic Review

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The Role of Language in Shaping International Migration

Cited by 251 publications

References 55 publications

Out-migration, wealth constraints, and the quality of local amenities

Out-migration, wealth constraints, and the quality of local amenities

Decomposing Culture: An Analysis of Gender, Language, and Labor Supply in the Household

Ethnic diversity and firms' export behavior

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