Native-Immigrant Gaps in Educational and School-to-Work Transitions in the Second Generation: The Role of Gender and Ethnicity

Stijn Baert, Frank Heiland () and Sanders Korenman ()
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Sanders Korenman: Baruch College, City University of New York

No 8752, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We study how native-immigrant (second generation) differences in educational trajectories and school-to-work transitions vary by gender. Using longitudinal Belgian data and adjusting for family background and educational sorting, we find that both male and female second-generation immigrants, especially Turks and Moroccans, lag natives in finishing secondary education and beginning tertiary education when schooling delay is taken into account, though the female gap is larger. The same is true for residual gaps in the transition to work: native males are 30% more likely than comparable Turkish males to be employed three months after leaving school, while the corresponding female gap is 60%. In addition, we study demographic behaviors (fertility, marriage and cohabitation) related to hypotheses that attribute educational and economic gaps to cultural differences between immigrants and natives.

Keywords: economic sociology; ethnic minorities; dynamic selection bias; educational attainment; gender differentials; school-to-work transitions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C35 I24 J15 J16 J70 Z10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages
Date: 2014-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dem, nep-edu, nep-mig and nep-ure
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Published - revised version published in: De Economist , 2016, 164, 159 - 186

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