Human capital background and the educational attainment of second-generation immigrants in France

Parental Ethnic Identity and Educational Attainment of Second-Generation Immigrants

Parental Ethnic Identity and Educational Attainment of Second-Generation Immigrants A lack of cultural integration is often blamed for hindering immigrant families’ economic progression. This paper is a first attempt to explore whether immigrant parents’ ethnic identity affects the next generation’s human capital accumulation in the host country. Empirical results based on data from the German ...

The schooling of children of immigrants: contextual effects on the educational attainment of the second generation.

We supplement earlier published findings on the academic achievement of the immigrant second generation with an analysis of school contextual effects based on the same large data set used by the best-known prior analyses, the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study. A hierarchical model of contextual and individual-level effects on academic achievement and school attrition reveals patterns th...

The Educational Attainment of Second Generation Immigrants in Canada: Evidence from SLID

This paper examines differences in educational attainment between natives and children of immigrants to Canada. We introduce two definitions of secondgeneration immigrants: The first considers all children with at least one immigrant parent to be second-generation immigrants, while the second definition requires that both parents were foreign-born. In the data, regardless of which definition we...

Cultural Capital and Educational Attainment

Heterogeneity in the Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment: Evidence from Switzerland on Natives and Second Generation Immigrants

Heterogeneity in the Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment: Evidence from Switzerland on Natives and Second Generation Immigrants This study applies rich data from the 2000 Swiss census to investigate the patterns of intergenerational education transmission for natives and second generation immigrants. The level of secondary schooling attained by youth aged 17 is related to t...