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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Bilingualism and Communicative Benefits
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| Autores: |
Gabszewicz, Jean
Ginsburgh, Victor
Weber, Shlomo
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| Data: |
2008-05-06
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| Ano: |
2008
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| Palavras-chave: |
Communicative Benefits
Linguistic Equilibrium
Learning Costs
Labor and Human Capital
C72
D83
O52
Z13
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| Resumo: |
We examine patterns of acquiring non-native languages in a model with two languages and two populations with heterogeneous learning skills, where every individual faces a binary choice of learning the foreign language or refraining from doing so. We show that both interior and corner linguistic equilibria can emerge in our framework, and that the fraction of learners of the foreign language is higher in the country with a higher gross cost adjusted communicative benefit. It turns out that this observation is consistent with the data on language proficiency in bilingual countries such as Belgium and Canada. We also point out that linguistic equilibria can exhibit insufficient learning which opens the door for government policies that are beneficial for both populations.
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| Tipo: |
Conference Paper or Presentation
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
29922
http://purl.umn.edu/6380
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| Relação: |
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)>Knowledge, Technology, Human Capital Working Papers
KTHC Nota di Lavoro
17.2008
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| Formato: |
17
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