This study provides an account of the dynamics of the dominant language adjustment process among immigrants in Australia using the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia, which comprises two cohorts of immigrants that arrived in Australia around five years apart. There are two special...

This paper uses two recent UK surveys to investigate labour market performance, the determinants of language proficiency, and the effect of language on earnings and employment probabilities of non-white immigrants. Our results show that language acquisition, employment probabilities, as well as...

We analyze various normatively determined distributions of language rights in multilingual settings. A general model for the analysis of language rights over time in a model with overlapping generations is set up. This model is then first used to find efficient allocations of rights in the...

This multidisciplinary study adopts econometric analysis for investigating how different characteristics determine the choice of the language used in the signs of a shopping street. We work with a dataset containing about 200 observations collected in the main shopping streets of the cities of...

We analyze normatively determined distributions of language rights in multilingual settings. It is shown in a welfare-maximizing model where rights today influence the status of a language in the future, that the 'naive' ex ante cost-benefit analysis has to be augmented in various directions....

The use of English language for cross-border communications is important in many areas of trade ranging from tourism to the trade in financial services. This is in order to build a stronger regional economy through freely and openly communicating with one another. However, the increasing...

Inhalt: Kurzinformation zur Aktion II der LINGUA- und ERASMUS-Programme I. Zuschüsse an Hochschulen, Hochschulkooperationsprogramme (HKP) - für Studentenmobilitäts- und Dozentenmobiltätsprogramme, für die gemeinsame Entwicklung neuer Lehrprogramme und Intensivprogramme II....

Das Erasmus-Programm (Aktionsprogramm der Europaeischen Gemeinschaften zur Foerderung der Mobilitaet von Hochschulstudenten) wurde 1987 eingefuehrt und hat bereits erheblich zur Staerkung der Studentenmobilitaet innerhalb der Europaeischen Gemeinschaft beigetragen. In der zweiten Phase des...