This paper provides a review of the research on the ‘economics of language' as applied to international migration. Its primary focuses are on: (1) the effect of the language skills of an individual on the choice of destination among international (and internal) migrants, both in terms of the...

Several studies have argued that learning a foreign language has the potential to increase the general cognitive ability of students who are from non-English departments. There is a tendency that in a bilingual program, these students obtained better achievements than those in monolingual...