This paper considers the role of language in employment outcomes and labour earnings in South Africa over the period … labour earnings. Allowing for language effects leads to a much diminished role of race/population group as a driver of labour …

This paper takes a novel approach to trying to disentangle the impact of globalization on wages by focusing on changes … in the return to speaking English, the international language of commerce, in South Africa as that country re …

This paper takes a novel approach to trying to disentangle the impact of globalization on wages by focusing on changes … in the return to speaking English, the international language of commerce, in South Africa as that country re …

This article summarizes three different strands of the literature that address the labor market effects of language … ongoing globalization leads to an increased demand for foreign language proficiency to reduce search and information costs and … migrants, destination language skills display both a prerequisite for and outcome of successful integration. Investments into …

, India, China), which has coincided with poor economic integration. Language proficiency is an important determinant of … language proficiency is crucial for good integration policy, as is understanding the relationship between these measures and …

who are proficient in the local dialect earn lower wages than those who are not. We also find that workers with better … dialect skills are more likely to settle for lower wages in exchange for social insurance. We hypothesize that they are doing … work. Further tests show that the phenomenon of "exchanging wages for social insurance participation" is more pronounced …