1. Language Nuances and Socioeconomic Outcomes.
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Chong, Alberto, Guillen, Jorge, and Rios, Vanessa
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SOCIOLINGUISTIC research ,SOCIOECONOMICS ,CULTURAL identity ,INTERNATIONAL communication - Abstract
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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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