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 …

When learning two languages of the same language family, one will realize quickly that there are similarities. But how … deep are language and culture related? For long time the hypothesis that languages are responsible for cultural development … intercultural communication can be drawn, giving another view on the relation between languages and cultures -- Culture ; Language …

Can language be centrally planned and controlled? Friedrich Hayek considered language the archetypal example of … spontaneous order, yet many countries adopt a planned order approach to language, attempting to centrally plan and control it … through language academies. I collect original data on the regulation of language across countries, and show that countries …