Language Skills and Economic Returns

Autor/in	Garrouste, Christelle
Titel	Language Skills and Economic Returns
Quelle	In: Policy Futures in Education, 6 (2008) 2, S.187-202 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1478-2103
DOI	10.2304/pfie.2008.6.2.187
Schlagwörter	Human Capital; Language Planning; Second Languages; Economics; Foreign Countries; Adult Literacy; Language Skills; Epistemology; Salaries; Chile; Czech Republic; Denmark; Finland; Hungary; Italy; Norway; Switzerland; International Adult Literacy Survey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Humankapital; Sprachwechsel; Second language; Zweitsprache; Volkswirtschaftslehre; Ausland; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Erkenntnistheorie; Entlohnung; Gehalt; Tschechische Republik; Dänemark; Finnland; Ungarn; Italien; Norwegen; Schweiz
Abstract	This article focuses on the contributions from the emerging positivist epistemological approach, endorsed by the economics of language and the economics of education, to study the returns to language skills, assuming that language competencies constitute key components of human capital. It presents initial results from a study on economic returns to language skills in eight countries enrolled in the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) -- Chile, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Italy, Norway and Italian-speaking Switzerland. The study shows commonalities between countries in terms of language skills valuing, beyond the type of language policy applied at the national level. In each of the eight countries compared, skills in a second language are estimated to be a major factor constraining affecting wage opportunities. (Contains 2 tables and 3 notes.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10