Immigrants' educational disadvantage: an examination across ten countries and three surveys

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作者
Schnepf, Sylke Viola [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Southampton, Southampton Stat Sci Res Inst, Southampton SO17 1BJ, Hants, England
关键词
education; educational inequalities; immigration;
D O I
10.1007/s00148-006-0102-y
中图分类号
C921 [人口统计学];
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摘要
Studies on immigrants' disadvantage focus predominantly on labour market perspectives. Immigrants' poor education is a subject much less examined especially in a cross-national context. This paper examines differences in educational achievement between immigrants and natives across ten OECD countries. In English-speaking countries, immigrants fare best, while in Continental European countries they fare worse compared to natives. Whilst language skills seem to explain immigrants' disadvantage in English-speaking countries, socioeconomic background and school segregation are further important determinants of immigrants' gap in Continental Europe. Results presented are predominantly robust across three sources of achievement data: PISA, TIMSS and PIRLS.
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