Family Matters: The Role of the Family in Immigrants' Destination Language Acquisition

This paper is concerned with the relationship among family members in the determinants of destination language proficiency among immigrants. A model of immigrant language proficiency is augmented to include dynamics among family members. It is tested using data on a sample of recent immigrants. Children are shown to have a negative effect on their mother?s language proficiency, but no effect on their father?s. There is a substantial positive correlation between the language skills of spouses. This is due to the correlation between spouses in both the measured determinants and the unmeasured determinants of destination language skills among spouses.

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Year of publication:	2002
Authors:	Chiswick, Barry R. ; Lee, Yew Liang ; Miller, Paul W.
Publisher:	Bonn : Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Subject:	Migranten \| Sprache \| Familiensoziologie \| Schätzung \| Australien \| Immigrants \| language skills \| family \| longitudinal data

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Series:	IZA Discussion paper series ; 460
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	845035347 [GVK] hdl:10419/21497 [Handle]
Classification:	J61 - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; J16 - Economics of Gender ; J15 - Economics of Minorities and Races
Source:	EconStor