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Economic Returns to Speaking the Right Language(s)? Evidence from Kazakhstan's Shift in State Language and Language of Instruction
Aldashev, Alisher - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040494
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An Economics Approach to Language Policy and Linguistic Justice
Wickström, Bengt-Arne - 2018
The essay gives an overview of how language planning and language policy can be motivated and analyzed by economic … methods. It is discussed what type of value language-related goods possess and what type of goods they are. Properties like … degrees of rivalry, exclusion, and shielding and how they can justify language planning are treated. A cots-benefit approach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930694
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Language Rights -- A Welfare-Economics Approach
Wickström, Bengt-Arne - 2021
Distributions of language rights in multilingual settings are analyzed from a normative viewpoint in this chapter. If …-benefit calculation has to be augmented in various ways if rights influence the status of a language, which in turn influences the … preferences for language rights. Also the inter-generational transfer of language repertoires to the next generation leads to an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315535
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Foreign Languages and Trade
Fidrmuc, Jan - 2014
Cultural factors and especially common languages are well-known determinants of trade. By contrast, the knowledge of foreign languages was not explored in the literature so far. We combine traditional gravity models with data on fluency in the main languages used in EU and candidate countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056833
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Fiscal Policies and Business Cycles in an Enlarged Euro Area
Staehr, Karsten - 2008
This paper compares the cyclical properties of fiscal policies across the 12 original eurozone countries and the future members from Central and Eastern Europe. For the sample period 1995-2005, the fiscal balance exhibits less inertia and is more counter-cyclical in Central and Eastern European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773620
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Did Austerity Cause Brexit?
Fetzer, Thiemo - 2018
Did austerity cause Brexit? This paper shows that the rise of popular support for the UK Independence Party (UKIP), as the single most important correlate of the subsequent Leave vote in the 2016 European Union (EU) referendum, along with broader measures of political dissatisfaction, are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910997
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Voting in the European Union - Central Europe's Lost Voice
Schneider, Ondrej - 2008
Ten Central European countries became members of the European Union in the years 2004-2007. They constitute 20% of the EU's total population; and even though their economic output is much lower, it rises dynamically. New members' impact on the EU policies has nevertheless been limited. This is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012768535
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Labour Market Institutions and Their Effect on Labour Market Performance in the New EU Member Countries
Fialová, Kamila - 2008
This article focuses on the role of labour market institutions in explaining different labour market developments in European countries, with a special attention to the new European Union member countries. This may allow us to analyse effects of various institutional setups and of their changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012769662
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Money Can't Buy EU Love : European Funds and the Brexit Referendum
Fidrmuc, Jan - 2016
We explore the role of the transfers that UK regions received from the European structural and cohesion funds, as well as other economic and social factors, in determining the support for the Remain vote in the Brexit referendum, and that past European transfers have played virtually no role in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979586
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Beyond Balassa and Samuelson : Real Convergence, Capital Flows, and Competitiveness in Greece
Belke, Ansgar Hubertus - 2015
We scrutinize the role of capital flows for competitiveness in seven euro-area countries in the context of real convergence and crisis with a specific focus on Greece. The paper extends the seminal Balassa-Samuelson model to include international capital markets. Capital flows are assumed to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012270