Huber, Matthias; Sommerfeld, Ann-Marie; Uebelmesser, Silke - In: Empirica 49 (2022) 4, pp. 897-948
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 … different motives for language learning and of the expected use of language skills in the labour market. We highlight possible …
