This article summarizes three different strands of the literature that address the labor market effects of language … ongoing globalization leads to an increased demand for foreign language proficiency to reduce search and information costs and … migrants, destination language skills display both a prerequisite for and outcome of successful integration. Investments into …

. Learning a new language is an investment in human capital. Migrants must learn the language of their destination country, but … have shown that fluency in a dominant language is important to economic success and increases economic efficiency. However …, maintaining linguistic diversity also has value since language is also an expression of people's culture. …

We investigate the relationship between gender and foreign language anxiety (FLA) in the second language (L2: English …) of 320 adult bilinguals (L1: Dutch) outside the foreign language learning context. Results show that females experience …

This paper presents the results of an empirical study designed to map German language proficiency among students at … German language proficiency of the Czech population only to an insignificant extent. Second, the school environment (the … opportunity to learn the language, compulsory subject, language study motivation) has a decisive influence on the respondents …

to several categories of literature in language economics. It consolidates the respective literature lists used by the …

We investigate the interplay of language skills and immigrant stocks in determining bilateral FDI out-stocks of OECD … immigrants on bilateral FDI – provided that residents of the two countries have few language skills in common. We find a similar … effect for immigrants from third countries that speak the language(s) of the FDI host country, making them potential …