کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
956094 928309 2011 9 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
At the intersection of self and other: English language ability and immigrant labor market outcomes
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی روانشناسی روانشناسی اجتماعی
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At the intersection of self and other: English language ability and immigrant labor market outcomes
چکیده انگلیسی

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.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Social Science Research - Volume 40, Issue 5, September 2011, Pages 1362–1370
نویسندگان
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