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...

Germany and Canada stand at polar ends of the scientific debate over language integration and ascension to citizenship. German naturalization, as of January 2000, contains an explicit language criterion for naturalization. The first German immigration act that will presumably come into effect on...