The economic returns to the knowledge and use of a second official language: English in Quebec and French in the rest-of-Canada

Canadian Public Policy

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 137-158

  Christofides, Louis N ^a   Swidinsky, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Language knowledge; Language ues; Wages

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE; WORKPLACE;

CANADA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 77955006953     PISSN: 03170861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/cpp.36.2.137     Document Type: Article

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