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Chapter 19. Culture, Linguistic Diversity, and Economics

Ginsburgh, Victor A.; Weber, Shlomo - In: Handbook of the economics of art and culture : volume 2, (pp. 507-543). 2014

This chapter examines how cultural similarities (or differences) represented by common language roots affect economic activities. When individuals share some common linguistic repertoires, they are more inclined to develop commercial relationships and conduct business transactions than in the...

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Peripheral Diversity and Redistribution

Desmet, Klaus; Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio; Weber, Shlomo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

) encompasses both diversity and polarization, and (ii) accounts for the distance between languages. Our results suggest that …

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Languages disenfranchisement in the European Union

Ginsburgh, Victor; Weber, Shlomo - 2004

We introduce the notion of language disenfranchisement which arises if the number of EU working languages is reduced … retention of French and German as working languages in essential to avoid a too large degree of disenfranchisement of citizens …

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