Foreign Language Learning: An Econometric Analysis
作者： Victor Ginsburgh , Victor Ginsburgh , Jacques Melitz , Jacques Melitz , Farid Toubal
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摘要: The paper is devoted to an econometric analysis of learning foreign languages in all parts the world. Our sample covers 193 countries and 13 important languages. Four factors significantly explain learning. All four affect broad decision learn but last two also point choice particular language learn. Literacy promotes general while world population speakers native discourages it. Trade with a specific prompts that linguistic distance between home language. may well deserve more emphasis than other three (literacy rate, distance, speakers), not only for its high significance, because direction can change faster by larger order magnitude. Controlling individual acquired languages, including English, no importance.
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