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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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