Official language proficiency and immigrant labour market outcomes: Evidence from test-based multidimensional measures of language skills

A large body of studies have consistently demonstrated that higher proficiency in the destination-country language improves immigrant labour market outcomes. However, because of the lack of objective measures of language skills, previous studies have mainly drawn on subjective measures of language p...

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Main Authors: Li Xu, Feng Hou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Statistics Canada 2023-01-01
Series:Economic and Social Reports
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Online Access:https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/36-28-0001/2023001/article/00002-eng.htm