The economic value of bilingualism for Asians and hispanics

Sociological Forum

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 254-275

  Shin, Hyoung Jin ^a   Alba, Richard ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Assimilation; Bilingualism; Ethnicity; Language skills; New immigrants; Race

Indexed keywords

EID: 64949156370     PISSN: 08848971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1573-7861.2009.01099.x     Document Type: Article

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