Family matters: the role of the family in immigrants' destination language acquisition |
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| Authors: | Barry R. Chiswick Yew Liang Lee Paul W. Miller |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago, 601 South Morgan Street, Chicago, IL 60607-7121, USA;(2) IZA Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, Germany;(3) Business School, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia;(4) Business School, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia |
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| Abstract: | Studies of immigrants' destination language acquisition to date have focused on the individual. In contrast, this paper is concerned with the relationships 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 and the unmeasured determinants of destination language skills, even when country of origin fixed effects are held constant. |
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| Keywords: | Immigrants Language skills Family |
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