Educational Attainment and Labor Market Performance: An Analysis of Immigrants in France

Mehtap Akgüç () and Ana Ferrer
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Mehtap Akgüç: European Trade Union Institute (ETUI)

No 8925, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Using a recent survey of immigrants to France, we provide a detailed analysis of the educational attainment and labor market performance of various sub-population groups in France. Our results indicate that immigrants to France are less educated than the native born and that these differences can be tracked down to differences in socioeconomic background for most groups of immigrants. Similarly, there is a significant wage gap between immigrant and native-born workers, but this is reduced and sometimes disappears after correcting for selection into employment. In most cases the remaining differences in education and labor market outcomes seem related to the area of origin of the immigrant as well as where the education of the immigrant is obtained.

Keywords: immigration; France; labor market performance of immigrants; educational attainment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 I26 J15 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2015-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-edu, nep-eur, nep-lab and nep-mig
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