Negative Attitudes, Network and Education

Patrick Bennett, Lisbeth la Cour (), Birthe Larsen and Gisela Waisman
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Gisela Waisman: Regeringskansliet, Stockholm

No 01-2015, Working Papers from Copenhagen Business School, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper explores potential explanations behind the educational gap between young natives and immigrants using two measures, negative attitudes towards immigrants and networking, which may influence natives and immigrants differently. The paper considers, both theoretically and empirically, the impact of negative attitudes and networking taking into account that these parameters may influence high and uneducated workers as well as immigrants and natives differently, creating different incentives to acquire education for the two ethnic groups. Using rich Danish administrative data, this paper finds evidence that greater negative attitudes increase incentives for males to acquire education and that networking also increases immigrant education.

Keywords: incentives; immigrants; education; attitudes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 I24 J15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2015-07-04
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dem, nep-edu, nep-eur, nep-lab, nep-mig and nep-ure
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