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dc.contributor.authorChiswick, Barry R.en
dc.contributor.authorLee, Yew Liangen
dc.contributor.authorMiller, Paul W.en
dc.date.accessioned2009-01-28T16:22:51Z-
dc.date.available2009-01-28T16:22:51Z-
dc.date.issued2002-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/21486-
dc.description.abstractThis paper 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. These differences disappear by 3 – years after immigration for speaking skills, but they persist for reading and writing skills. The variables generated from the model of destination languageproficiency are in part predictions of visa category and are more important statistically for explaining proficiency. The effects of some variables on language skills increase with duration in these longitudinal data. In particular, the efficiency variable, age, and gender, which may be reflecting differences in labor market attachment, increase in importance overtime.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x471en
dc.subject.jelJ24en
dc.subject.jelJ61en
dc.subject.jelJ18en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordimmigrationen
dc.subject.keywordlanguage proficiencyen
dc.subject.keywordvisa categoriesen
dc.subject.keywordAustraliaen
dc.subject.stwMigrantenen
dc.subject.stwSpracheen
dc.subject.stwEinwanderungsrechten
dc.subject.stwSchätzungen
dc.subject.stwAustralienen
dc.titleImmigrants' Language Skills and Visa Category-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn845527673en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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