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What Holds Back the Second Generation?

The Intergenerational Transmission of Language Human Capital Among Immigrants

Hoyt Bleakley and Aimee Chin
Journal of Human Resources, March 2008, 43 (2) 267-298; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.43.2.267
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vol. 43 no. 2 267-298
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.43.2.267
Published By 
University of Wisconsin Press
Print ISSN 
0022-166X
Online ISSN 
1548-8004
History 
  • Received July 1, 2006
  • Accepted April 1, 2007
  • Published online June 19, 2008.
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© 2008 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System

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  1. Hoyt Bleakley and
  2. Aimee Chin

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