Globalization and the returns to speaking English in South Africa
By: James Levinsohn.
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 10985; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 10985.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: English language -- South Africa.; English language -- Economic aspects.; Globalization.
Description: "This paper takes a novel approach to trying to disentangle the impact of globalization on wages by focusing on changes in the return to speaking English, the international language of commerce, in South Africa as that country re-integrated with the global economy after 1993.  The paper finds that he return to speaking English increased overall and that within racial groups the return increased primarily for Whites but not for Blacks"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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