We present experimental evidence from a bilingual city in Northern Italy on whether the language spoken by a partner in …, but that the gap between cooperation among in-group members and cooperation towards children speaking another language is … considerable and increasing with age. This gap is due to both, in-group favoritism and language group discrimination. …

influence of reading performance on math performance, highlighting the importance of early language support for immigrants for …

We present experimental evidence from a bilingual city in Northern Italy on whether the language spoken by a partner in …, but that the gap between cooperation among in-group members and cooperation towards children speaking another language is … considerable and increasing with age. This gap is due to both, in-group favoritism and language group discrimination. …

This paper provides a review of the research on the ‘economics of language' as applied to international migration. Its … primary focuses are on: (1) the effect of the language skills of an individual on the choice of destination among … international (and internal) migrants, both in terms of the ease of obtaining proficiency in the destination language and access to …

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 …

influence of reading performance on math performance, highlighting the importance of early language support for immigrants for …

. Learning a new language is an investment in human capital. Migrants must learn the language of their destination country, but … have shown that fluency in a dominant language is important to economic success and increases economic efficiency. However …, maintaining linguistic diversity also has value since language is also an expression of people's culture. …

-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases … school dropout. A key mediating factor for this effect is parents' lower speaking proficiency in the host-country language …

-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases … school dropout. A key mediating factor for this effect is parents' lower speaking proficiency in the host-country language …

We investigate the pattern of intergenerational transmission of language in a bilingual society. We consider the case … language affects language skills as well as the language parents speak to their children. Empirically, we exploit the natural … experiment generated by a language-in-education reform that introduced Catalan-Spanish bilingualism at school to estimate the …