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Educational Attainment: Analysis by Immigrant Generation

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dc.creator Chiswick, Barry R.
dc.creator DebBurman, Noyna
dc.date 2003
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:10:33Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:10:33Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20450
dc.identifier ppn:360948464
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20450
dc.description This paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of the largely ignored issue of the determinants of the educational attainment of adults by immigrant generation. Using Current Population Survey (CPS) data, differences in educational attainment are analyzed by immigrant generation (first, second, and higher order generations), and among the foreign born by country of birth and age at immigration. Second-generation American adults have the highest level of schooling, exceeding that of the foreign born and of the native born with native-born parents. Teenage immigration is associated with fewer years of schooling compared to those who immigrated at pre-teen or post-teen ages. The gender difference in educational attainment is greatest among the foreign born. Hispanics and Blacks lag behind the non-Hispanic whites in their educational attainment, with the gap narrowing for higher order immigrant generations among Hispanics, but rising among blacks.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher
dc.relation IZA Discussion paper series 731
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject J61
dc.subject I21
dc.subject J24
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject demand for schooling
dc.subject human capital
dc.subject immigrants second generation
dc.subject Bildungsniveau
dc.subject Migranten
dc.subject Einwanderung
dc.subject Bildungsverhalten
dc.subject Generationenbeziehungen
dc.subject Schätzung
dc.subject Vereinigte Staaten
dc.title Educational Attainment: Analysis by Immigrant Generation
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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