Direct and indirect effects of training vouchers for the unemployed

Dominique Meurs, Patrick Puhani and Friederike Von Haaren

No 1515, Economics Working Paper Series from University of St. Gallen, School of Economics and Political Science

Abstract: We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and educational decisions and distinguishing particularly between firstand second-generation immigrants and between source country groups. First, for immigrant adolescents, we show family-size adjusted convergence to almost native levels of higher education track attendance from the first to the second generation of immigrants. Second, we find that reduced fertility is associated with higher educational outcomes for immigrant children, possibly through a quantity-quality trade-off. Third, we show that between one third and the complete difference in family-size adjusted educational outcomes between immigrants from different source countries or immigrant generations can be explained by parental background. This latter holds true for various immigrant groups in both France and Germany, two major European economies with distinct immigration histories.

JEL-codes: J13 J15 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 59 pages
Date: 2015-06
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