Language proficiency of immigrants and misclassification

Augustin de Coulon and François-Charles Wolff

Applied Economics Letters, 2007, vol. 14, issue 12, 857-861

Abstract: We study the determinants of language proficiency, reading and speaking, for a sample of immigrants living in France and allow for misclassification errors since language proficiency is based on subjective self-reported evaluations. Using a parametric maximum likelihood method, we find that the probabilities of misclassification are large. Misclassification is mainly due to immigrants experiencing actual language problems, but who do not report them.

Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1080/13504850701295802

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