Age at Immigration and High School Dropouts

Sarit Cohen Goldner () and Gil Epstein
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Sarit Cohen Goldner: Bar-Ilan University
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No 8378, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We focus on high school dropout rate among male and female immigrant children. We consider the relationship between the dropout rate and age of arrival of the immigrants. Using repeated cross sectional data from the Israeli Labor Force Surveys of 1996-2011 we show that the share of high school dropouts among immigrant children who arrived from the Former Soviet Union during 1989-1994 is at least as double than among natives in the same age group. Further, we show that among immigrant youth there is a monotonic negative relation between age at arrival and the share of high school dropouts. To understand our results we present a theoretical framework that links between age at arrival in the host country, language proficiency, quality of education and wages.

Keywords: high-school dropouts; age at arrival; immigrants (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 J24 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21 pages
Date: 2014-08
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Published - published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2014, 3:19

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