Linguistic Distances and Ethno-Linguistic Fractionalisation and Disenfranchisement Indices

Victor Ginsburgh and Shlomo Weber ()

Working Papers ECARES from ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles

Abstract: The chapter gives an overview of the various approaches to compute linguistic distances (the lexicostatistic method, Levenshtein distances, distances based on language trees, phonetic distances, the ASJP project and distances based on learning scores) as well as distances between groups. It also briefly describes how distances directly affect economic outcomes such as international trade, migrations, language acquisition and earnings, translations. Finally one can construct indices that take account (or not) of distances and how these indices are used by economists to measure their impact on outcomes such as redistribution, the provision of public goods, growth, or corruption aswell as on the effects of certain linguistic policies.

Pages: 48 p.
Date: 2016-05
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-evo and nep-pr~
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Published by:

Downloads: (external link)
https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/2297 ... WEBER-linguistic.pdf Full text for the whole work, or for a work part (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Linguistic distances and ethnolinguistic fractionalization and disenfranchisement indices (2016)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eca:wpaper:2013/229785

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
http://hdl.handle.ne ... lb.ac.be:2013/229785

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers ECARES from ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Benoit Pauwels ().