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Linguistic diversity in the classroom, student achievement, and social integration

Bredtmann, Julia; Otten, Sebastian; Vonnahme, Christina - 2018

In this article, we analyze whether non-native speakers in the classroom affect the educational achievement and social integration of migrant and native students. In contrast to previous studies, which mainly examine the effect of the share of immigrant pupils, we focus on language heterogeneity...

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Implementing the equality, diversity, and inclusion agenda in multinational companies : a framework for the management of (linguistic) diversity

Ciuk, Sylwia; Śliwa, Martyna; Harzing, Anne-Wil - In: Human resource management journal : HRMJ ; the … 33 (2023) 4, pp. 868-888

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Effects of team diversity on performance, perceptions, and predictions : experimental evidence of gender composition and language

Contreras, Valentina; Orsini, Chiara; Ozcan, Berkay; … - 2022

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Can people trust what they don't understand? : role of language and trust for financial inclusion

Nagańska, Aleksandra; Cichocki, Stanisław - In: Central European economic journal 9 (2022) 56, pp. 132-157

The aim of this paper is to look at determinants of financial inclusion through the lens of comprehension of financial concepts and financial language. Specifically, we are interested in which factors are important should this comprehension be absent. We show that, in the context of finance,...

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The value of language skills : a common language facilitates communication and economic efficiency, but linguistic diversity has economic and cultural value too

Grenier, Gilles; Zhang, Weiguo - 2021

In today's globalized world, people are increasingly mobile and often need to communicate across different languages … even non-migrants must often learn other languages if their work involves communicating with foreigners. Economic studies …

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Linguistic diversity, school language of instruction policy, and learning outcomes across Asia and the Pacific

Igarashi, Takiko; Suryadarma, Daniel; Yadav, Pooja - 2023

Children appear to learn better when taught in their mother tongue. This finding gives rise to an argument that mother tongue-based multilingual education could effectively improve learning outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. However, the challenges of implementing an effective...

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Minority Language and the Stability of Bilingual Equilibria

Ayo, Uriarte; Ramón, José; Iriberri, Nagore - Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, … - 2011

We investigate a society with two official languages: A, shared by all individuals and B, spoken by a bilingual … strategy Nash equilibrium in which bilingual agents use both the A and B languages. This equilibrium is evolutionary stable …

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Language competition with bilinguals in social networks

Castelló, Xavier; Eguíluz, Víctor M.; Miguel, Maxi San - Society for Computational Economics - SCE - 2006

Several models have been proposed to study the dynamics of competition between languages. Among them, and starting from … the dynamics of endangered languages, recent approaches have addressed the issue of bilingualism. Along these lines we … consider the dynamics of language use, allowing for bilingualism, within a social network in the case where the two languages …

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The Linguistic Rights of Minorities. The Case of the Hungarian Minorities from Transylvania

ROMAN, Emilian-Iustinian - In: Anuarul Universitatii „Petre Andrei” din Iasi / … (2011) 7, pp. 473-486

The article sets out to discuss the linguistic diversity that is part and parcel of the cultural diversity, an essential feature of the European Union. In the European context, the rights of the EU minorities can only serve the interests in the preservation of the linguistic and cultural...

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Ethnic diversity makes me sick! An examination of ethnic diversity’s effect on health outcomes

Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa; Ocloo, Janet Exornam; … - 2015

This study hypothesizes a relationship between ethnic diversity and health outcomes. We explore the effects of ethnic and linguistic heterogeneity (measured by indices of ethnic and linguistic fractionalization) on 30 health outcome variables in a cross-section of 87 countries. We explore...

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