Based on thorough and extensive research, this book examines in detail traditional status
signals in the translation profession. It provides case studies of eight European and non …

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 …

This article explores the relationship between foreign language skills and individuals' labor
income in Germany, focusing on the English language. Using the 2012 and 2016 sample of …

Immigrant entrepreneurs have become increasingly important to economic development,
and there is substantial debate regarding their enhanced potential to expand their activities …

Early research that relied on standardized assessments of intelligence reported negative
effects of bilingualism for children, but a study by Peal and Lambert (1962) reported better …

The wage gap between Francophone and Anglophone men from 1970 and 2000 fell by 25
percentage points within Quebec, but only by 10 points Canada‐wide, largely because the …

For most of Canadian economic history, French-Canadians (who composed more than a
quarter of the country's population) had living standards inferior to those of English …

As far as nineteenth century Anglosaxons were concerned, French Canadians were not
quite white. This article considers the racial dimension of French-Canadian subjugation …

Wage gaps between various groups within economies are common and policy solutions to
attenuate them can have different distributional effects within groups. We propose a model to …

This article analyses how language laws favouring French improved the vitality of the
Francophone majority relative to the declining Anglophone minority of Quebec. Part one …