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040			_aMaCbNBER _beng _cMaCbNBER
100	1		_aBrock, William. _928509
245	1	0	_aEverybody’s Talkin’ at Me: _bLevels of Majority Language Acquisition by Minority Language Speakers / _cWilliam Brock, Bo Chen, Steven N. Durlauf, Shlomo Weber.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. _bNational Bureau of Economic Research _c2022.
300			_a1 online resource: _billustrations (black and white);
490	1		_aNBER working paper series _vno. w30410
500			_aAugust 2022.
520	3		_aImmigrants in economies with a dominant native language exhibit substantial heterogeneities in language acquisition of the majority language. We model partial equilibrium language acquisition as an equilibrium phenomenon. We consider an environment where heterogeneous agents from various minority groups choose whether to acquire a majority language fully, partially, or not at all. Different acquisition decisions confer different communicative benefits and incur different costs. We offer an equilibrium characterization of language acquisition strategies and find that partial acquisition can arise as an equilibrium behavior. We also show that a language equilibrium may exhibit insufficient learning relative to the social optimum. In addition, we provide a local stability analysis of steady state language equilibria. Finally, we discuss econometric implementation of the language acquisition model and establish identification conditions.
530			_aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
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538			_aMode of access: World Wide Web.
588	0		_aPrint version record
690		7	_aNoncooperative Games _2jelc
650		7	_aNoncooperative Games _2jelc
084			_aC72 _2jelc
690		7	_aAllocative Efficiency • Cost–Benefit Analysis _2jelc
650		7	_aAllocative Efficiency • Cost–Benefit Analysis _2jelc
084			_aD61 _2jelc
690		7	_aEconomics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants • Non-labor Discrimination _2jelc
650		7	_aEconomics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants • Non-labor Discrimination _2jelc
084			_aJ15 _2jelc
690		7	_aEconomic Sociology • Economic Anthropology • Language • Social and Economic Stratification _2jelc
650		7	_aEconomic Sociology • Economic Anthropology • Language • Social and Economic Stratification _2jelc
084			_aZ13 _2jelc
700	1		_aChen, Bo.
700	1		_aDurlauf, Steven N. _99639
700	1		_aWeber, Shlomo.
710	2		_aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830		0	_aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) _vno. w30410.
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w30410
856			_yAcceso en línea al DOI _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w30410
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