language in national business and in inter-groupcommunications. How much weights should be placed on common language education … and on ethnic language education is a crucial issue in school education of minority students.This paper develops a model … education is reasonably effective in skill development) and only for those with adequate wealth. Common-language-only education …

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 …

More than 4.4 million students enrolled in US public schools participate in English language learner programs because … of linguistic barriers to learning in regular classrooms. Whether native language instruction should be used in these … bilingual education programs (which use some native language instruction) and English-only programs are not significantly …

There are various degrees of similarity between the languages of different immigrants and the language of their … destination country. This linguistic distance is an obstacle to the acquisition of a language, which leads to large differences in … the attainments of the language skills necessary for economic and social integration in the destination country. This …

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 …