Modeling Immigrants' Language Skills

Research in Labor Economics

Volumn 27, Issue , 2007, Pages 75-128

  Chiswick, Barry R ^a   Miller, Paul W ^a  

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EID: 34548184002     PISSN: 01479121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0147-9121(07)00003-9     Document Type: Review

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