International Conference "Language at Work. Research Advances in Social Sciences" (June 7-8, 2018)

Among many other communications, the project team has also presented results concerning advances in the research. A list of these is show as follows:

• Florian Coulmas: "Economic theory and the diffusion of languages"

• Antoni Vidal-Suñé; Ma. Belén López-Panisello: “Validation of labour language intensity scale (ILT)”.

• Ma. Carmen Molina Cobo; Ma. Teresa Sorrosa; Antoni Vidal-Suñé: “Classification of labour occupations through language skills using artifical neural networks analysis”. 

• Maria Cristina Morales: “English-Spanish linguistic acculturation and occupational access at the U.S.-Mexico Border”.

• Eleni Papaoikonomou; Matias Ginieis; Rafael Böcker: “The  work  of  being  an  informed  consumer:  Is  there  a  digital  divide  in  the  case  of  responsible  consumption?”

• Antonio Di Paolo: “Local languages in the labour market: The case of Catalan”.

• Nune Ayvazyan: “Migrants and the EU 2020 strategy: Towards occupational inclusion”.

• Javier Mato; María Miyar; Rodolfo Gutiérrez: “Immigrants’  educational  credentials  leading  to  employment  outcomes:  the  role  played  by  language  skills”.

• Amado Alarcón; Blanca Deusdad; Tinka T. Schubert: “Two worlds of scripts:  Call centres and public services. The case of gender violence hotlines in Spain”. 

• Till Burckhardt: “Translation management and digitalizationin the Swiss Federal Government”. 

• Ester Torres: “Preliminary meta-analysis on the linguistic validity of self-reporting”. 

• Teresa Corbella; Amado Alarcón: “Language used at work: A comparative study by countries and gender through a language intensity index”. 

• Catherine S. Capelo; M. Angeles Serrano: “What key competences the occupations have?”.