influence of reading performance on math performance, highlighting the importance of early language support for immigrants for …

approach using, as an instrument, the measurement of how far, on average, official language differs from ordinary language. The …

-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases … school dropout. A key mediating factor for this effect is parents' lower speaking proficiency in the host-country language …

from 1985 to 2004. A special emphasis is put on the role of the language spoken in the various municipalities. Our results … sensitive to tax rates set by their close neighbours only. We also reject the hypothesis that the language does not matter: in … municipalities speaking different languages than between municipalities speaking the same language. That observation is particularly …

; language ; culture ; internal migration ; gravity ; Germany …

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 …

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