comparisons across a language barrier in Switzerland. This Röstigraben separates cultural groups, but neither labor markets nor … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings …

assigned among high-school students and choices were measured using an incentivized experiment. Students who participated in …

We analyze normatively determined distributions of language rights in multilingual settings. It is shown in a welfare …-maximizing model where rights today influence the status of a language in the future, that the “naïve” ex ante cost-benefit analysis …

This article investigates the macro-level drivers of adult-age language learning. We construct a new dataset that … covers German language learning in 77 countries (including Germany) for 1992-2006. Fixed-effects regressions show that … language learning in the EU is strongly associated with immigration. Instead, immigration by non-EU citizens in associated with …

We examine the impact of language training on the economic integration of immigrants in France. The assignment to this … test score of an initial language exam is below a certain threshold. This eligibility rule creates a discontinuity in the … increases labor force participation of the treated individuals. The language classes appear to have a larger effect for labor …

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