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Family matters: the role of the family in immigrants' destination language acquisition.
- Source :
- Journal of Population Economics; Nov2005, Vol. 18 Issue 4, p631-647, 17p, 4 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2005
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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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- FAMILIES
IMMIGRANTS
LANGUAGE acquisition
PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
NONCITIZENS
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09331433
- Volume :
- 18
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Population Economics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 19137439
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-005-0008-0