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| Title: | | Does it matter how people speak?  |
| Authors: | | Chong, Alberto |
| Issue Date: | | 2006 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Working paper // Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department 586 |
| Abstract: | | Language serves two key functions. It enables communication between agents, which allows for the establishment and operation of formal and informal institutions. It also serves a less obvious function, a reassuring quality more closely related to issues linked with trust, social capital, and cultural identification. While research on the role of language as a learning process is widespread, there is no evidence on the role of language as a signal of cultural affinity. I pursue this latter avenue of research and show that subtle language affinity is positively linked with change in earnings when using English-speaking data for cities in the Golden Horseshoe area in Southern Ontario during the period 1991 to 2001. The results are robust to changes in specification, a broad number of empirical tests, and a diverse set of outcome variables. |
| Subjects: | | Linguistics Culture English Trust Governance Institutions Canada |
| JEL: | | O40 Z13 O51 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Research Department Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank
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