TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Chiswick, Barry R.
AU  - Lee, Yew Liang
AU  - Miller, Paul W.
        TI  - Family Matters: The Role of the Family in Immigrants' Destination Language Acquisition
        PY  - 2002/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 460
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp460
        AB  - This paper is concerned with the relationship among family members in the determinants of
destination language proficiency among immigrants. A model of immigrant language
proficiency is augmented to include dynamics among family members. It is tested using data
on a sample of recent immigrants. Children are shown to have a negative effect on their
mother’s language proficiency, but no effect on their father’s. There is a substantial positive
correlation between the language skills of spouses. This is due to the correlation between
spouses in both the measured determinants and the unmeasured determinants of destination
language skills among spouses.
        KW  - family
KW  - language skills
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - longitudinal data
        ER  -