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Compensation Schemes for Learning a Lingua Franca in the European Union

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  • Victor Ginsburgh

    (ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium and CORE, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)

  • Juan D. Moreno-Ternero

    (Department of Economics, Universidad Pablo de Olavide;)

Abstract

We discuss compensation schemes that should give incentives to EU countries and citizens to acquire a lingua franca. We consider three possible candidate languages: English, French and German, which are already the most widely spoken languages. In our model, countries can claim compensations linked to the number of (young) citizens who do not speak a given candidate language, and the distance between the official language in the country and the suggested lingua franca. We study two sharing schemes that are rooted in ancient sources: the Aristotelian proportional rule and the Talmud rule. The former prevents coalitional manipulations among countries, whereas the latter guarantees meaningful lower bounds in the sharing process for all countries.

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  • Victor Ginsburgh & Juan D. Moreno-Ternero, 2018. "Compensation Schemes for Learning a Lingua Franca in the European Union," Working Papers 18.05, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Department of Economics.
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    European Union; lingua franca; compensation schemes;
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    • D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement

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