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Negative and positive assimilation, skill transferability, and linguistic distance
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The critical period hypothesis for language learning: what the 2000 US census says
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Occupational language requirements and the value of English in the US labor market
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Linguistic Distance : A Quantitative Measure of the Distance Between English and Other Languages
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Language Skills and Immigrant Adjustment : What Immigration Policy Can Do!
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Immigrants' Language Skills: The Australian Experience in a Longitudinal Survey
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This paper is concerned with the determinants of English language proficiency (speaking, reading and writing) among immigrants. It presents a model of immigrant destination language acquisition based on economic incentives, exposure to the destination language, and efficiency in second language acquisition. A unique data set, the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia, is used to test the model. This survey had three waves, at about 6 months, 18 months and 3? years after immigration. The analyses are performed by wave, type of language skill and gender using probit analysis. Bivariate probit analysis is used across waves. The hypotheses are supported by the data. The bivariate probit analysis indicates a positive correlation in the unexplained component that declines with time between waves, indicating a regression to the mean in English language proficiency.
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Australia; Australien; ddc:330; Einwanderungsrecht; I29; immigrants; J15; J61; language skills; longitudinal survey; Migranten; Schätzung; Sprache
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URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/21438
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Family Matters: The Role of the Family in Immigrants' Destination Language Acquisition
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Language in the Labor Market: The Immigrant Experience in Canada and the United States
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