Local Labour Market Conditions on Immigrants' Arrival and Children's School Performance

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In this paper we analyse the impact of labour market conditions at immigration on school performance for the immigrants' children. First, we establish the direct effect of initial labour market conditions on later labour market performance for the father. Along with several other studies in this field we find that later labour market performance of the father (measured by labour earnings and accumulated work experience) depend significantly initial labour market conditions. Second, we find evidence that this initial effect feeds into the children's school performance. Concretely, for the sons, we find a positive impact of initial favourable labour market conditions of the father on the grade point average in lower secondary school. Daughters' school performance seems to be unrelated to the same initial labour market conditions.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 11526

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Education and Research Institutions: General ; Demographic Economics: Public Policy ; Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
• Subject: educational outcomes ; immigration ; local labour market conditions

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Roed, Marianne ; Schone, Pal ; Umblijs, Janis
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2018

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/180544
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