and native-born bilinguals. The empirical testing for the US, Canada, Australia, Israel and Bolivia is supportive of the …This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that … language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and …

' proficiency in the language of their adopted country is correlated with their productivity, as measured by earnings. Two … ability is linked with language acquisition, and potential measurement error in the language proficiency measures, which would … probably result in under-estimation of language effects. The present study, which uses panel data for a 10-year period in …

. -- Wages ; language knowledge ; language use …Canada is a country with two official languages, French and English. The need for both languages in Quebec and the Rest-of-Canada … (ROC) generates a demand for bilingualism and investment in the acquisition of a second official language. Knowledge of an …