The Economics of Language: International Analyses (Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy)

✍ Scribed by Chiswick & Mill

• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 622
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Written by two internationally renowned experts in the field, this book explores the determinants of dominant language proficiency among immigrants and other linguistic minorities and the consequences of this proficiency for the labour market. Using empirical material from a range of countries, including the USA, Canada, Australia and Bolivia, the authors develop a range of models of the determinants of dominant language proficiency and use econometric techniques to test them and estimate the magnitude of the effects. This volume is an excellent resource for researchers and a fine reader for specialists in labour economics, linguistics as well as a number of other disciplines.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Series-Title......Page 4
Title......Page 8
Copyright......Page 9
Contents......Page 10
Dedication......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 16
Preface......Page 18
Introduction......Page 20
Part I: The determinants of language proficiency......Page 28
1. A model of destination-language acquisition: Application to male immigrants in Canada......Page 30
2. Language skill definition: A study of legalized aliens......Page 66
3. Language choice among immigrants in a multi-lingual destination......Page 91
4. Language in the immigrant labor market......Page 105
5. Parents and children talk: English language proficiency within immigrant families......Page 164
Part II: The effects of language proficiency on labor market outcomes......Page 192
6. Immigrant earnings: Language skills, linguistic concentrations and the business cycle......Page 194
7. Schooling, literacy, numeracy and labour market success......Page 224
8. Language skills and earnings among legalized aliens......Page 250
9. Language and labor supply: The role of gender among immigrants in Australia......Page 280
10. Immigrant adjustment in Israel: The determinants of literacy and .uency in Hebrew and the e.ects on earnings......Page 311
Part III: The interaction of language and earnings among immigrants......Page 338
11. The endogeneity between language and earnings: International analyses......Page 340
12. Speaking, reading, and earnings among low-skilled immigrants......Page 381
13. The linguistic and economic adjustment of Soviet Jewish immigrants in the United States, 1980–2000......Page 402
Part IV: Language and earnings among the native born......Page 438
14. The economic cost to native-born Americans of limited English language proficiency......Page 440
15. Earnings in Canada: The roles of immigrant generation, French ethnicity, and language......Page 458
16. Indigenous language skills and the labor market in a developing economy: Bolivia......Page 500
Part V: Language, networks and enclaves......Page 518
17. Do enclaves matter in immigrant adjustment?......Page 520
18. Ethnic networks and language proficiency among immigrants......Page 557
Part VI: Linguistic distance......Page 578
19. The effect of linguistic distance and country of origin on immigrant language skills Application to Israel......Page 580
20. Linguistic distance: A quantitative measure of the distance between English and other languages......Page 602
Bibliography of language research......Page 612
Index......Page 616