(DMs) who supervise production workers. Language barriers between FMs and DMs could impede transfers of management …-contractible. These conditions generate sub-optimal communication within the MNC. If communication is complementary with language skills …, the planner could raise welfare by subsidizing foreign language acquisition. We experimentally assess the validity of the …

Immigrants in economies with a dominant native language exhibit substantial heterogeneities in language acquisition of … the majority language. We model partial equilibrium language acquisition as an equilibrium phenomenon. We consider an … environment where heterogeneous agents from various minority groups choose whether to acquire a majority language fully, partially …

the host country. We evaluate the impact of a reform that expanded and improved early language classes to refugees in … we find that employment and earnings gradually diverged for the treated group after completion of the language program … children of refugees who received enhanced language classes were more likely to complete lower secondary school and less likely …

Between 1898 and 1948, English was the language of instruction for most post-primary grades in Puerto Rican public … schools. Since 1949, the language of instruction in all grades has been Spanish. We use this policy change to estimate the … effect of English-intensive instruction on the English-language skills of Puerto Ricans. Although naive estimates suggest …

constructing a 5 km by 5 km dataset on language use for 223 countries, we empirically explore these theoretical predictions. While …