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Compensation schemes for learning a Lingua Franca in the European Union

par Ginsburgh, Victor ;Moreno-Ternero, J.D.
Référence World economy, 41, 7, page (1775-1789)
Publication Publié, 2018-07

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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.