This book proposes a path-breaking study of the economics of multilingualism at work,
proposing a systematic approach to the identification and measurement of the ways in which …

Linguistic distance, ie the dissimilarity between languages, is an important factor influencing
international economic transactions such as migration or international trade flows by …

There has never been in the past a language spoken more widely in the world than English
is today. How far has English already spread? How much further can we expect it to go …

How much further can we expect the spread of English to go? What are the gains? What are
the costs? The paper first tries to identify the areas of life where English already serves as a …

This study examines the returns to foreign language skills of immigrants in the S panish
labor market. Measurement error and endogeneity issues are addressed by deriving a set of …

In this article we discuss the outcomes of a study into the languages of the workplace of
internationally operating companies. Our aim is to contribute to studies of multilingualism in …

Skills that are difficult to automate are expected to increase in demand and reward
according to skill-biased technological change advocates, who have identified high rewards …

In the academic year of 2004-2005 the Spanish region of Madrid began to implement a
bilingual educational programme in public schools. Currently, 45% of the public educational …

Abstract Theory and evidence from the behavioral science literature suggest that the
widespread and rising use of lingua francas in the workplace may impact the ethical …

Computer-assisted translation (CAT) has always used translation memories, which require
the translator to have a corpus of previous translations that the CAT software can use to …