Ginsburgh, Victor; Mélitz, Jacques; Toubal, Farid Toubal - 2014
The paper is devoted to an econometric analysis of learning foreign languages in all parts of the world. Our sample … covers 193 countries and 13 important languages. Four factors significantly explain learning, two of which affect the broad … learning while the world population of speakers of the native language generally discourages it. Trade with speakers of a …