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 …

Germany and Canada stand at polar ends of the scientific debate over language integration and ascension to citizenship …. German naturalization, as of January 2000, contains an explicit language criterion for naturalization. The first German … aims at language as a criterion for legal immigration. Canada, in effect, does not base entry or citizenship on knowledge …

We investigate the pattern of intergenerational transmission of language in a bilingual society. We consider the case … language affects language skills as well as the language parents speak to their children. Empirically, we exploit the natural … experiment generated by a language-in-education reform that introduced Catalan–Spanish bilingualism at school to estimate the …

There are various degrees of similarity between the languages of different immigrants and the language of their … destination country. This linguistic distance is an obstacle to the acquisition of a language, which leads to large differences in … the attainments of the language skills necessary for economic and social integration in the destination country. This …

as is usually thought and that it requires advanced notions of justice and well-being. The most likely ethical basis for … effects. The paper also explores some of the dimensions of equality and well-being along which the HE principle can be applied …

Understanding the exact connection between inequality and justice is important because justice is classically regarded … justice, the sense of justice would not awaken to exert its moral suasion, no matter how great the inequality or how fast its … increase. We obtain exact links between economic inequality and three parameters of the justice evaluation distribution …

This paper provides a review of the research on the ‘economics of language' as applied to international migration. Its … primary focuses are on:(1) the effect of the language skills of an individual on the choice of destination among international … (and internal) migrants, both in terms of the ease of obtaining proficiency in the destination language and access to …

This study examines the causal effects of Dutch language proficiency of immigrants from four main source countries on … their labour market and social integration outcomes. Language proficiency appears ranked according to linguistic distance to … The Netherlands, a ranking that even holds for the gender gap in proficiency. We assess the effect of language proficiency …

in language and emotional development. Our data come from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) which allows us to analyze … children's language and emotional development in depth. We relax the usual assumption that the production function underpinning … child development is not itself a function of the age of the child and estimate the bilingual gap in children's language and …

This article uses micro-data from the Spanish National Immigrant Survey to analyze the acquisition of Spanish language … skills for immigrants in Spain. The motivation of the paper is threefold. Language skills are important for an individual … is to explore the impact of speaking multiple foreign languages on host language learning for immigrants. The results …