Negative and Positive Assimilation, Skill Transferability, and Linguistic Distance

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Negative and Positive Assimilation, Skill Transferability, and Linguistic Distance

This paper synthesizes two models of immigrant assimilation: “positive assimilation” if earnings rise with duration as destination-relevant skills are acquired and “negative assimilation” if immigrants with highly transferable skills experience declining earnings as their economic rent diminishes. H...

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Main Authors:	Chiswick, Barry, Miller, Paul
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	University of Chicago Press 2012
Subjects:	Linguistic distance skill transferability immigrant assimilation
Online Access:	http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664794 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/17619

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