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    Family matters: the role of the family in immigrants' destination language acquisition

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    Chiswick, B.
    Lee, Y.
    Miller, Paul
    Date
    2005
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Chiswick, B. and Lee, Y. and Miller, P. 2005. Family matters: the role of the family in immigrants' destination language acquisition. Journal of Population Economics. 18 (4): pp. 631-647.
    Source Title
    Journal of Population Economics
    DOI
    10.1007/s00148-005-0008-0
    ISSN
    0933-1433
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/20617
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Studies of immigrants' destination language acquisition to date have focused on the individual. In contrast, this paper is concerned with the relationships 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 and the unmeasured determinants of destination language skills, even when country of origin fixed effects are held constant.

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