The Bilingual Advantage draws together researchers from education, economics, sociology, anthropology and linguistics to examine the economic and employment benefits of bilingualism in the US labor market, countering past research that shows no such benefits exist. Collectively, the authors draw on novel methodological approaches and new data to examine the economics of bilingualism for the new generation of bilinguals entering a digital-age globalized workforce. The authors also pay considerable attention to how to best capture measures of bilingualism and biliteracy, given the constraints of most existing datasets. Contents include: Section I: Bilingualism in the US Labor Market: (1) Contextualizing Bilingualism in the Labor Market: New Destinations, Established Enclaves and the Information Age (Rebecca M. Callahan and Patricia C. Gándara; (2) Benefits of Bilingualism: In the Eye of the Beholder? (Reynaldo F. Macías); (3) Exploring Bilingualism, Literacy, Employability and Income Levels among Latinos in the United States (Sarah Catherine K. Moore, Molly Fee, Jongyeon Ee, Terrence G. Wiley and M. Beatriz Arias); Section II: Are There Really Economic Benefits to Bilingualism in the Labor Market?: (4) Labor Market Differences Between Bilingual and Monolingual Hispanics (Joseph P. Robinson-Cimpian); (5) The Occupational Location of Spanish-English Bilinguals in the New Information Economy: The Health and Criminal Justice Sector in the US Borderlands with Mexico (Amado Alarcón, Antonio Di Paolo, Josiah Heyman and María Cristina Morales); (6) Returns to Spanish--English Bilingualism in the New Information Economy: The Health and Criminal Justice Sectors in the Texas Border and Dallas-Tarrant Counties (Amado Alarcón, Antonio Di Paolo, Josiah Heyman and María Cristina Morales); (7) The Literal Cost of Language Assimilation for the Children of Immigration: The Effects of Bilingualism on Labor Market Outcomes (Orhan Agirdag); (8) English Plus: Exploring the Socioeconomic Benefits of Bilingualism in Southern California (Rubén G. Rumbaut); Section III: Employment, Educational Attainment and Bilingualism: (9) Bilinguals in the United States and College Enrollment (Lucrecia Santibañez and Maria Estela Zárate); (10) Employer Preferences: Do Bilingual Applicants and Employees Experience an Advantage? (Diana A. Porras, Jongyeon Ee and Patricia Gándara); Section IV: Policy Options: Fostering Bilingualism in the Market Place: (11) The International Baccalaureate: A College Preparatory Pathway for Heritage Language Speakers and Immigrant Youth (Ursula Aldana and Anysia Mayer); and (12) Looking Toward the Future: Opportunities in a Shifting Linguistic Landscape (Patricia C. Gándara and Rebecca M. Callahan).