Family matters: The role of the family in immigrants' destination language acquisition

Journal of Population Economics

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 631-647

  Chiswick, Barry R ^a,b   Lee, Yew Liang ^c   Miller, Paul W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b IZA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Family; Immigrants; Language skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744574787     PISSN: 09331433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00148-005-0008-0     Document Type: Article

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