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Hamburg, Freie und Hansestadt, Alemania
This systematic review provides an overview of monetary and non-monetary as well as positive and negative individual returns on migrant nurses’ multilingual skills. Labour market returns on multilingual skills in the healthcare sector are investigated from the perspectives of human capital theory and language economics. The systematic review was conducted based on 12 international studies from Western Europe, North America, and Australia. The analyses showed that migrant multilingual nurses receive mostly non-monetary returns, which can be positive or negative. Positive non-monetary returns that benefit nurses emerge in the form of job satisfaction and recognition in the workplace. Negative non-monetary returns occur in the form of workload, frustration, and exclusion. These non-monetary returns are the most represented group of labour market returns in this study. A few studies identified positive monetary labour market returns in the form of wage, particularly for those working in regions with a higher proportion of migrants sharing the same heritage language and in outpatient care. Given the heterogeneity and limitations of the existing studies, especially concerning monetary outcomes, further research is needed to explore monetary and non-monetary labour market returns across various types of care and in specific national contexts.
