Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35153 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3074
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of language capital amongst immigrants, and the effect of language deficiencies on the economic performance of second generation immigrants. Using a long panel that oversamples immigrants, we can follow their children after they have left the parental home. Our results show a sizeable significant association between parents' and children's fluency, conditional on parental and family characteristics. We find that language deficiencies of the second generation are associated with poorer labour market outcomes for females only. Finally, we find a strong relationship between parental fluency and female labour market outcomes, which works through the child's language proficiency.
Subjects: 
Intergenerational transmission
human capital
language proficiency of immigrants
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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