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- CESifo Research Network
| Dates: | July 26-27, 2013 |
| Description: | CESifo Venice Summer Institute 2013 Workshop on "The Economics of Language Policy" |
| Location: | Venice, Island of San Servolo in the Bay of Venice, Italy |
| Subject: | Papers from economists and researches from other disciplines working on issues of language policy are solicited. The following is a non-exhaustive list of possible specific themes of individual contributions: - languages and economic efficiency (e.g. languages in the labor market, language as a public good, linguistic diversity and trade, languages and firms) - language dynamics and network-externality properties - language and ethnic and social identity - language and economic and social power - evaluation of the costs and distributive consequences of alternative language policies - normative evaluation of official-language policies - techniques to evaluate the material and symbolic value of languages (e.g. tools adapted from environmental economics) [gemäß den Informationen des Anbieters - according to site editor's information] |
| JEL Code: | Z |
| URL: | http://www.cesifo-group.de/portal/page/portal/CFP_CONF/CFP_CONF_VSI/VSI%202013/vsi13-elp-Wickstr%F6m/vsi13-cfp_wickstroem_02.pdf |