This paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan …, a multi-ethnic country with complex ethnic settlement patterns that has switched its official state language from … bilingualism on earnings while Russian was the official state language in the 1990s. Surprisingly, the Kazakh language continues to …

social norm, which embodies societal attitudes towards distributive justice. Results for optimal redistributive taxation in …

This paper proposes a model that can be implemented to estimate the willingness to pay for distributive justice. A … formula is derived that allows one to recover the willingness to pay for distributive justice from the estimated coefficients … monetary value of justice in the United States is about one fifth of GDP. We find no evidence that the value of justice varies …

Social justice is a topic of importance to social scientists and also political decision makers. We examine the … relationship between globalization and social justice as measured by a new indicator for 31 OECD countries. The results show that … countries that experienced rapid globalization enjoy social justice. When the KOF index of globalization increases by one …

Language is a strong and robust determinant of international trade patterns: Countries sharing a common language trade … that this trade-promoting effect of language is likely to reflect cultural ties, rather than lower costs of communication … or similar institutions. Analyzing unique data for a single-language country, Germany, we find that similarities in the …

An important element for the public support of policies is their perceived justice. At the same time most policy … their own risk preferences. The observed allocations are consistent with four different views of justice under uncertainty. …