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Language Nuances and Socioeconomic Outcomes

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  • Alberto Chong
  • Jorge Guillen
  • Vanessa Rios

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While language enables communication, it also provides a reassuring quality more closely related with issues linked with trust, social capital, and cultural identification. Research on the role of language as a learning process is widespread but there is little evidence on its role as a signal for cultural affinity. We pursue this latter avenue of research and show that subtle language affinity is positively linked with change in socioeconomic outcome variables when using English‐speaking data for cities in the Golden Horseshoe area in Southern Ontario during the period 1991 to 2001.

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  • Alberto Chong & Jorge Guillen & Vanessa Rios, 2010. "Language Nuances and Socioeconomic Outcomes," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 69(2), pages 693-716, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ajecsc:v:69:y:2010:i:2:p:693-716
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1536-7150.2010.00715.x
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