Talking Business: New Evidence on How Language Shapes Economic Behaviour
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Keywords
entrepreneurship; language; future time reference; culture; migration; Switzerland;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D15 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Intertemporal Household Choice; Life Cycle Models and Saving
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- J6 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers
- L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship
- Z1 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENT-2020-12-07 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-LMA-2020-12-07 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
- NEP-MIG-2020-12-07 (Economics of Human Migration)
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