Earnings Differentials between German and French Speakers in Switzerland
نویسندگان
چکیده
The paper analyses the effect of mother tongue on labor market outcomes of Swiss residents. This type of analysis can shed light on an important policy question. Is the Swiss labor market well integrated, or can one find instead segmentation along language borders? Improving on previous research in this area, we use a nationally representative household survey, the Swiss Household Panel 1999 and 2000, and we explicitly account for self-selection of workers into language areas. Overall, we find no evidence to suggest that the Swiss labor market is not perfectly integrated or that internal migrants are positively selected
منابع مشابه
Earnings Differentials between German and French Speakers in Switzerland
Economists have not taken great interest in the study of language so far, with the notable exception of the economic analysis of immigration, where investments in language skills are recognized as decisive for the integration process (C, , D and F, ). However, this dismissive attitude may be about to change. One challenge is the surge of research at the intersection o...
متن کاملCulture, risk factors and mortality: can Switzerland add missing pieces to the European puzzle?
BACKGROUND The aim was to compare cause-specific mortality, self-rated health (SRH) and risk factors in the French and German part of Switzerland and to discuss to what extent variations between these regions reflect differences between France and Germany. METHODS Data were used from the general population of German and French Switzerland with 2.8 million individuals aged 45-74 years, contrib...
متن کاملCulture, risk factors and mortality: Can Switzerland add missing pieces to the European puzzle? Short title: Mortality and risk factors in Switzerland
BACKGROUND: The aim was to compare cause-specific mortality, self-rated health (SRH) and risk factors in the French and German part of Switzerland and to discuss to what extent variations between these regions reflect differences between France and Germany. METHODS: Data were used from the general population of German and French Switzerland with 2.8 million individuals aged 45-74 years, contrib...
متن کاملAccentual Transfer from Swiss-German to French. A Study of "Français Fédéral"
This study aims at examining the accentual and phrasing properties of a variety of L2 French commonly called “Français Fédéral”, a variety of French spoken in Switzerland by speakers who have a Swiss-German dialect as a mother tongue. For this, we compared the data of 4 groups of 4 speakers: 2 groups of 4 native French speakers from Neuchâtel and from Paris, and 2 groups of 4 Swiss-German Frenc...
متن کاملDo speakers show different F0 when they speak in different languages? The case of English, French and German
Based on the facts that the voice quality that allows the recognition of a speaker is characterized, among other features, by his/her fundamental frequency (F0) and that F0 may differ across languages, we investigated, in the present research, whether speakers show different F0 when they speak in two different languages. To do this, we carried out a study with a within-speaker design, in which ...
متن کامل