Immigrants' language skills and visa category

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Immigrants' language skills and visa category

This article is concerned with the determinants of English language proficiency among immigrants in a longitudinal survey for Australia. It focuses on both visa category and variables derived from an economic model of the determinants of destination-language proficiency among immigrants. Skills-test...

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Main Authors:	Chiswick, B., Lee, Y., Miller, Paul
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell 2006
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43617

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