Linguistic barriers in the destination language acquisition of immigrants

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 105, Issue , 2014, Pages 30-50

  Isphording, Ingo E ^a   Otten, Sebastian ^b,c  

^a IZA   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c RWI LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Human capital; Immigrants; Language skills; Linguistic distance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901007024     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2014.03.027     Document Type: Article

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