Multinational corporations often are multilingual entities, yet surprisingly little is known about
how foreign-language competencies in their foreign subsidiaries are related to local …

Owing to globalisation processes, foreign language skills and familiarity with foreign cultures
and institutions, along with similar skills and dispositions which we call 'transnational cultural …

Language proficiency is extremely important for international migrants. Better language
proficiency means easier assimilation in the host country and greater returns to human …

We examine economic returns to proficiency in English in China using two waves of the
China Labor-Force Dynamics Survey (CLDS). We find positive earnings returns to …

This article explores the relationship between foreign language skills and individuals' labor
income in Germany, focusing on the English language. Using the 2012 and 2016 sample of …

Due to globalization processes, foreign language skills, knowledge about other countries
and intercultural competences have increasingly become important for societies and …

Along with the increasing pace of globalization, recent decades faced a dramatic increase in
international migrant flows as well. Compared to the flows of trade, capital and knowledge …

Large migration inflows increase the linguistic and cultural diversity of the place of
destination, which facilitates the universal interchange of ideas and contributes to economic …

Abstract In Europe, more than 250,000 university students spend one or two semesters
abroad every year. This study explores whether a short time abroad contributes to the …

The globalisation of labour markets makes language skills one of the key competences
required by employers nowadays. The purpose of this paper is to estimate the wage …