At the intersection of self and other: English language ability and immigrant labor market outcomes |
| |
Authors: | Ilana Redstone Akresh Reanne Frank |
| |
Institution: | a Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, MC-454, 605 East Springfield, 57 CAB, Champaign, IL 61820, USA b Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University, 238 Townshend Hall, Columbus, OH 43210, USA |
| |
Abstract: | New Immigrant Survey 2003 data are used to consider the intersection between self- and other’s assessments of English proficiency. Our findings yield two important results. First, individuals who over- or under-estimate their English proficiency experience worse labor market outcomes than those whose positive self-evaluations coincide with the interviewer’s. Second, our analysis of respondents with a concordant self and interviewer assessment suggests higher returns to English proficiency than when using self-assessment. We argue that, although self-assessed language proficiency dominates the literature on immigrants’ well-being, this measure omits an important additional factor concerning immigrant self-perception and its concordance with the perceptions of others. |
| |
Keywords: | Immigration English ability |
本文献已被 ScienceDirect 等数据库收录! |
|