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Language economics addresses the socioeconomic gradients of foreign language proficiency for natives, proficiency and training in the host country language among immigrants, local languages in multilingual societies, and language-in-education policies. This chapter summarizes the existing literature focusing on papers that address causal questions as they provide clear-cut recommendations to policymaking and individuals. The authors conclude that languages play a crucial role in explaining labor market and many other socioeconomic outcomes of both immigrants and natives and that different language and education policies have proven to produce several socioeconomic impacts, also beyond the affected generations.

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Responsible Section Editor: Klaus F. Zimmermann

The article has benefitted from valuable comments of the editors and anonymous referees. There is no conflict of interest.

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  1. Università di Torino and Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin, Italy

    Ainoa Aparicio-Fenoll

  2. Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Antonio Di Paolo

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Aparicio-Fenoll, A., Di Paolo, A. (2023). Language Economics. In: Zimmermann, K.F. (eds) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_411-1

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