Employer preferences: Do bilingual applicants and employees experience an advantage?

The Bilingual Advantage: Language, Literacy and the US Labor Market

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 234-259

  Porras, Diana A ^a   Ee, Jongyeon ^a   Gándara, Patricia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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