Foreign languages and their impact on unemployment

• Verfasst von: Donado Gomez, Alejandro [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Foreign languages and their impact on unemployment
• Verf.angabe: Alejandro Donado
• Umfang: 23 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 01082018
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Labour
• Jahr Quelle: 2017
• Band/Heft Quelle: 31(2017), 3, S. 265-287
• ISSN Quelle: 1467-9914
• DOI: doi:10.1111/labr.12097
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 157814406X

Abstract

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.