The Immigrant-native Student Educational Achievement Gap in Greece using PISA 2012

Christos Sakellariou

Athens Journal of Business & Economics, 2017, vol. 3, issue 3, 221-238

Abstract: Starting in the 1970s Greece, a traditional emigration country, experienced an immigration boom, with the majority of immigrants being Albanians and co-ethnic Greeks from the ex-Soviet Union and other Eastern bloc countries; by 2012 the share of students in Greek schools with immigrant background exceeded 10%, having tripled over a decade. While in most countries immigrant students perform worse than natives in international assessments, there is considerable between-country heterogeneity. Using PISA 2012 for Mathematics and Reading achievement and a multilevel analysis, I find that Greece belongs to a small group of countries in which there is no evidence of an immigrant disadvantage for either first- or secondgeneration immigrants. The differences in achievement found in the raw data can be easily be accounted for by differences in socioeconomic background, school track, as well as differences in between-school quality.

Keywords: Educational achievement gap; immigrant students; multilevel analysis; Greece (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.30958/ajbe.3.3.1

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