Migration background and educational tracking: Is there a double disadvantage for second-generation immigrants?

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Research on immigrants' educational disadvantages largely focuses on differences in student achievement tests. Exploiting data from the German PIRLS extension, we find that second-generation immigrants face additional disadvantages with respect to grades and teacher recommendations for secondary school tracks that cannot be explained by differences in student achievement tests and general intelligence. Second-generation immigrations are disproportionately affected by prevailing social inequalities at the transition to secondary school tracks due to their generally less favorable socio-economic background. We additionally provide new evidence suggesting that these inequalities might be related to the failing economic assimilation of immigrants.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 3256

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Analysis of Education ; Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination ; Education: Government Policy
• Subject: immigration ; educational inequalities ; educational tracking ; Germany ; Migranten ; Bildungschancen ; Bildungsabschluss ; Soziale Integration ; Deutschland

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Lüdemann, Elke ; Schwerdt, Guido
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
• (where): Munich
• (when): 2010

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/46329
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET