Autore
Donado, Alejandro

Titolo
Foreign Languages and their Impact on Unemployment
Periodico
Labour
Anno: 2017 - Volume: 31 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 265 - Pagina finale: 287

Using a large European data set, I investigate the impact of knowing foreign languages on unemployment for the first time. The focus is on natives (not on immigrants). I find that (1) knowing a foreign language reduces the probability of being unemployed by at least 3.4 percentage points; (2) females benefit more than males from learning foreign languages; (3) English and German tend to have a larger and more robust impact on unemployment than French, Spanish, and Italian; (4) but the impact of all these five languages varies considerably across countries.



SICI: 1121-7081(2017)31:3<265:FLATIO>2.0.ZU;2-G

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