Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/305803 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Citation: 
[Journal:] Empirica [ISSN:] 1573-6911 [Volume:] 49 [Issue:] 4 [Publisher:] Springer US [Place:] New York, NY [Year:] 2022 [Pages:] 897-948
Publisher: 
Springer US, New York, NY
Abstract: 
This paper focuses on foreign language learning as human capital investment or consumption. We apply the human capital investment framework to foreign language learning and enlarge it by the consumption motive. Based on a novel dataset of close to 5000 language course participants in 14 countries worldwide, we estimate individual and country-level determinants of the different motives for language learning and of the expected use of language skills in the labour market. We highlight possible spillovers from the consumption motive to a professional use, which emerge mostly in a "tied-mover" context. This provides guidance for targeted language policies.
Subjects: 
Language learning
New dataset
Human capital investment
Consumption
JEL: 
C82
E21
E22
F15
F22
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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