TY  - JOUR
AU  - Levinsohn,James
TI  - Globalization and the Returns to Speaking English in South Africa
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 10985
PY  - 2004
Y2  - December 2004
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w10985
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w10985.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
James A. Levinsohn
Yale School of Management
PO Box 208200
New Haven, CT  06520
Tel: 734/763-2319
Fax: 734/764-2769
E-Mail: James.Levinsohn@yale.edu
M1  - published as James Levinsohn. "Globalization and the Returns to Speaking English in South Africa," in Ann Harrison, editor, "Globalization and Poverty" University of Chicago Press (2007)

AB  - This paper takes a novel approach to trying to disentangle the impact of globalization on wages by focusing on changes in the return to speaking English, the international language of commerce, in South Africa as that country re-integrated with the global economy after 1993.  The paper finds that he return to speaking English increased overall and that within racial groups the return increased primarily for Whites but not for Blacks.
ER  -