Editing Multilingualism (section)

===Economic benefits===
Bilinguals might have important labor market advantages over monolingual individuals as bilingual people can carry out duties that monolinguals cannot,<ref name="Chohan 1">Chohan, Usman W. (2021). [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3760757 The New Economy and Languages: HYPIA in Neoliberalism]. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220128174222/https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3760757 |date=28 January 2022 }}. ''The Papers of the International Association of Hyperpolyglots (HYPIA).'' Social Science Research Network (SSRN). Accessed 15 February 2021.{{Self-published source|date=November 2023}}</ref> such as interacting with customers who only speak a minority language. A study in Switzerland has found that multilingualism is positively correlated with an individual's salary, the productivity of firms, and the gross domestic production (GDP); the authors state that Switzerland's GDP is augmented by 10% by multilingualism.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Grin|first1=François|last2=Sfreddo|first2=Claudio|last3=Vaillancourt|first3=François|title=Economics of the multilingual workplace.|date=2013|publisher=Routledge|location=[S.l.]|isbn=978-0-415-85106-0}}</ref> A study in the United States by O. Agirdag found that bilingualism has substantial economic benefits, as bilingual people were found to earn around $3,000 more per year in salary than monolinguals.<ref>{{cite journal | last=Agirdag |first=O. |title=The long-term effects of bilingualism on children of immigration: student bilingualism and future earnings |journal=International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism |volume=17 |issue=4 |pages=449–464 |year=2014 |doi=10.1080/13670050.2013.816264 |s2cid=27479622 |url=http://dare.uva.nl/personal/pure/en/publications/the-longterm-effects-of-bilingualism-on-children-of-immigration-student-bilingualism-and-future-earnings(1ebc5588-e90f-49c5-8dde-a77f5f78ef76).html }}</ref>