Sources of immigrants' language proficiency: Australian results with comparisons to the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States of America

Evans, Mdr

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“…It has been shown in numerous studies that proficiency is enhanced by a higher level of education and by migration while young (see Long (1990), Service and Craik (1993) on the age effects in language attainment). In comparison to the studies by Chiswick and Miller (1995)(1996)(1999 and Evans (1986), the age at migration effects may have a different interpretation in some of the analyses presented below. The recent settler arrivals that provide the information base for the empirical section of the study were first interviewed after about six months in Australia.…”

Section: Economic Incentives For the Acquisition Of English Skills Ammentioning

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Immigrants' Language Skills: The Australian Experience in a Longitudinal Survey

2002

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent, nonprofit limited liability company (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung) supported by the Deutsche Post AG. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its research networks, research support, and visitors and doctoral programs. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. The current research program deals with (1) mobility and flexibility of labor, (2) internationalization of labor markets, (3) the welfare state and labor markets, (4) labor markets in transition countries, (5) the future of labor, (6) evaluation of labor market policies and projects and (7) general labor economics. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available on the IZA website (www.iza.org) or directly from the author. This paper is concerned with the determinants of English language proficiency (speaking, reading and writing) among immigrants. It presents a model of immigrant destination language acquisition based on economic incentives, exposure to the destination language, and efficiency in second language acquisition. A unique data set, the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia, is used to test the model. This survey had three waves, at about 6 months, 18 months and 3½ years after immigration. The analyses are performed by wave, type of language skill and gender using probit analysis. Bivariate probit analysis is used across waves. The hypotheses are supported by the data. The bivariate probit analysis indicates a positive correlation in the unexplained component that declines with time between waves, indicating a regression to the mean in English language proficiency. JEL Classification:J15, J61, I29

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Section: Economic Incentives For the Acquisition Of English Skills Ammentioning

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Immigrants' Language Skills: The Australian Experience in a Longitudinal Survey

2002

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“…The study covers the language proficiencies of adults age 15 to 64. This is a slightly wider age group than usual in studies using the large sampies in Census data (Evans (1986): ages 20 to 64, Chiswick and Miller (1995): ages 25 to 64). The country of origin and age restrictions and the deletion of the few observation with missing data result in a sample with 2,032 observations.…”

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Ethnic networks and language proficiency among immigrants

1996

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"This paper uses a unique data set for Australia (1988) that includes a variety of ethnic network variables to analyze the role of the language concentration measure [in immigrants' acquisition of the language of the destination country]. These ethnic variables, in particular, ethnic press, relatives in Australia, and spouse's origin language, are highly statistically significant. Their inclusion in the equation eliminates the effect of the minority-language concentration variable. The model for analyzing the determinants of English reading and English writing skills in Australia is also shown to be very similar to the model for speaking fluency, including the effect of the ethnic network variables."

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“…Notably, where attempts are made to distinguish years of schooling undertaken in the country of origin, and years of schooling undertaken after arrival in the destination country, the latter variable has been shown to have the more important impact on destination language skills (see Evans (1986) for Australia, Espenshade and Fu (1997) and McManus et al (1983) for the US and Dustmann (1994) for Germany).…”

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International Migration and the Economics of Language

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Miller

2015

Handbook of the Economics of International Migration

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. This paper provides a review of the research on the 'economics of language' as applied to international migration. Its primary focuses are on: (1) the effect of the language skills of an individual on the choice of destination among international (and internal) migrants, both in terms of the ease of obtaining proficiency in the destination language and access to linguistic enclaves, (2) the determinants of destination language proficiency among international migrants, based on a model (the three E's) of Exposure to the destination language in the origin and destination, Efficiency in the acquisition of destination language skills, and Economic incentives for acquiring this proficiency, (3) the consequences for immigrants of acquiring destination language proficiency, with an emphasis on labor market outcomes, and in particular earnings. Factors that are considered include age, education, gender, family structure, costs of migration, linguistic distance, duration in the destination, return migration, and ethnic enclaves, among others.

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Sources of immigrants' language proficiency: Australian results with comparisons to the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States of America

Cited by 24 publications

References 10 publications

Immigrants' Language Skills: The Australian Experience in a Longitudinal Survey

Immigrants' Language Skills: The Australian Experience in a Longitudinal Survey

Ethnic networks and language proficiency among immigrants

International Migration and the Economics of Language

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