This research establishes empirically that existing cross-language variations in the structure of the future tense and … ancestry is (i) higher if the dominating language at home has a periphrastic future tense, and (ii) lower for women exposed …

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 …

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 …

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 …

This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and … existing cross-language variations in the structure of the future tense and the presence of grammatical gender and politeness … distinctions. Moreover, the research suggests that while language structures have largely reflected past human experience and …