The Human Capital (Schooling) of Immigrants in America

James Smith

No 6899, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper deals with several salient issues about immigrants to the United States and their education. These issues include a comparison of the schooling accomplishments of immigrants and the native-born that emphasizes the considerable diversity in the schooling accomplishments among different immigrant sub-groups and between legal and undocumented migrants. I also examine the role of the foreign-born who come to the United States for post-secondary schooling. Finally, I show that the educational generational progress among all groups of immigrants to the United States has been quite impressive during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Keywords: immigration; education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 I23 I28 J10 J15 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43 pages
Date: 2012-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-lab, nep-lma, nep-ltv and nep-mig
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Published - published in: Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller. (eds.), Handbook on the Economics of International Migration, Volume 1A, Chapter 4, pp. 167-195, 2014

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