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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1137-1158 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Journal | Review of Economics of the Household |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Early online date | 21 Jan 2016 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2017 |
Abstract
We document the educational integration of immigrant children in France and Germany with a focus on the link between family size and educational decisions and distinguishing particularly between first- and second-generation immigrants and between source country groups. First, for immigrant adolescents, we show family-size adjusted convergence to almost native levels of higher education track attendance from the first to the second generation of immigrants. Second, we find that reduced fertility is associated with higher educational outcomes for immigrant children, possibly through a quantity–quality trade-off. Third, we show that between one-third and the complete difference in family-size adjusted educational outcomes between immigrants from different source countries or immigrant generations can be explained by parental background. This latter holds true for various immigrant groups in both France and Germany, two major European economies with distinct immigration histories.
Keywords
- Decomposition, Integration, Migration, Quantity–quality trade-off
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Social Sciences(all)
- Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance(all)
- Economics and Econometrics
Sustainable Development Goals
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In: Review of Economics of the Household, Vol. 15, No. 4, 01.12.2017, p. 1137-1158.
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T1 - Number of siblings and educational choices of immigrant children
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AU - Meurs, Dominique
AU - Puhani, Patrick A.
AU - Von Haaren-Giebel, Friederike
N1 - Funding Information: This project was partly supported by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under the joint project “Integration of First and Second Generation Immigrants in France and Germany”. We thank the editor and anonymous referees and seminar participants at the German Economic Association (“Verein für Socialpolitik”) and at “Niedersächsischer Workshop in Applied Economics” for helpful comments. All remaining errors are our own.
PY - 2017/12/1
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KW - Decomposition
KW - Integration
KW - Migration
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