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    Immigrants' language skills and visa category

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    Authors
    Chiswick, B.
    Lee, Y.
    Miller, Paul
    Date
    2006
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Chiswick, B. and Lee, Y. and Miller, P. 2006. Immigrants' language skills and visa category. International Migration Review. 40 (2): pp. 419-450.
    Source Title
    International Migration Review
    DOI
    10.1111/j.1747-7379.2006.00023.x
    ISSN
    0197-9183
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43617
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    This article is concerned with the determinants of English language proficiency among immigrants in a longitudinal survey for Australia. It focuses on both visa category and variables derived from an economic model of the determinants of destination-language proficiency among immigrants. Skills-tested and economic immigrants have the greatest proficiency shortly after immigration, followed by family-based visa recipients, with refugees having the lowest proficiency. Other variables the same, these differences disappear by 3.5 years after immigration for speaking skills; and although they diminish, they persist longer for reading and writing skills. The variables generated from the model of destination-language proficiency (such as schooling and age at migration) are, in part, predictions of visa category, but they are more important statistically for explaining proficiency.

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