Kick It Like Özil? Decomposing the Native-Migrant Education Gap

Annabelle Krause-Pilatus, Ulf Rinne and Simone Schüller

No 6696, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to analyze the determinants of the persistent native-migrant gap. One part of the gap can be attributed to differences in socioeconomic background and another part remains unexplained. Faced with this decomposition problem, we apply linear and matching decomposition methods. Accounting for differences in socioeconomic background, we find that migrant pupils are just as likely to receive recommendations for or to enroll at any secondary school type as native children. Comparable natives, in terms of family background, thus face similar difficulties as migrant children. Our results point at more general inequalities in secondary schooling in Germany which are not migrant-specific.

Keywords: tracking; Germany; human capital; education; migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 J15 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2012-06
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Published - revised version published in: International Migration Review , 2015, 49 (3), 757–789

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Journal Article: Kick It Like Özil? Decomposing the Native-Migrant Education Gap (2015)
Working Paper: Kick It Like Özil?: Decomposing the Native-Migrant Education Gap (2012)
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