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The economics of language: an introduction and overview

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2008

This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and benefits associated with this characteristic embodied in the...

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Interpreting Europe and US Labor Markets Differences: The Specificity of Human Capital Investments

Wasmer, Etienne - 2002

while considered as extremely large in the public debate in Europe. The main argument is based on a fundamental property of …. Two sets of implications are then derived: on one hand, mobility costs are high in Europe and transitions between steady …-states has especially strong adverse effects. Jobs endogenously last longer in Europe than in the US, but when they are destroyed …

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