This paper takes a novel approach to trying to disentangle the impact of globalization on wages by focusing on changes … in the return to speaking English, the international language of commerce, in South Africa as that country re …

arrived in the 1950s and 1960s eventually surpassed the average native wage. Improvements in English language skills …

English language proficiency. Rather, they appear to be the result of Spanish speakers having relatively little of those labor …

, partly in response to policies. Our results suggest that more segregated countries in terms of ethnicity and language, i …

by establishing trade policies that promoted trade within empires. In particular, the use of a common language, the …

explained by factors other than language acquisition. These results are confirmed using panel data on wages and knowledge of …. Language acquisition is an important element in immigrant/native earnings convergence, but most of this convergence is … with past evidence on language-skill complementarity. Natives and immigrants with high levels of education benefit …

translation-related search costs. Our results provide causal evidence that language barriers significantly hinder trade and that …

students' scores on a language skills test administered after 16 months. The estimates are sufficiently precise to rule out …

any, differentiate teachers with high impact on student achievement in middle school English Language Arts from those with …