A Macro-level Analysis of Adult-age Language Learning
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language skills; language learning; migration; migrant networks; migration policy;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EUR-2017-11-19 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-MIG-2017-11-19 (Economics of Human Migration)
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