Intergenerational Transmission of Language Capital and Economic Outcomes
利用长期面板数据研究移民家庭中父母语言能力对子女的影响，发现父母与子女的语言流利度显著相关，且语言缺陷仅对女性二代移民的劳动力市场表现有负面影响。
Abstract This paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of language capital among immigrants, and the effect of language deficiencies on the economic performance of second-generation immigrants. Using a long panel that oversamples immigrants, we can follow their children after they have left the parental home. Our results show a sizeable significant association between parents’ and children’s fluency, conditional on parental and family characteristics. We find that language deficiencies of the second generation are associated with poorer labor market outcomes for females only. Finally, we find a strong relationship between parental fluency and female labor market outcomes, which works through the child’s language proficiency.