economic transactions such as migration or international trade flows by imposing hurdles for second language acquisition and … its merits in two different applications. First, the effect of linguistic distance in the language acquisition of … of Spain. Across countries, linguistic distance is negatively correlated with reported language skills of immigrants …

This paper presents the results of an empirical study designed to map German language proficiency among students at … German language proficiency of the Czech population only to an insignificant extent. Second, the school environment (the … opportunity to learn the language, compulsory subject, language study motivation) has a decisive influence on the respondents …

Anthropology to explain heterogeneity in language skills of immigrants. This measure is based on an automatical algorithm comparing … pronunciation and vocabulary of language pairs. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel covering the period from 1997 to … 2003, the linguistic distance measure is applied within a human capital framework of language acquisition. It is shown that …

premia for applying their native language on the job in addition to those for English, their trade-fostering potential seems …