majority can turn a corporation’s dividend policy into an oppression strategy against minority shareholders, cutting off the … minority from any source of income from their corporation and leaving financial profits dangling in sight, but out of the … minority’s reach. Especially in family firms, where the corporation is the main source of income for its shareholders, the …

Germany and Canada stand at polar ends of the scientific debate over language integration and ascension to citizenship …. German naturalization, as of January 2000, contains an explicit language criterion for naturalization. The first German … aims at language as a criterion for legal immigration. Canada, in effect, does not base entry or citizenship on knowledge …

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 …