Migration background and educational tracking

Is there a double disadvantage for second-generation immigrants?

Research on immigrants' educational disadvantages documents substantial immigrant—native achievement gaps in standardized student assessments. Exploiting data from the German PIRLS extension, we find that second-generation immigrants also receive worse grades and teacher recommendations for sec...

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Volume:	26
Main Author:	Lüdemann, Elke Schwerdt, Guido
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Academic
Place of publication:	Berlin/Heidelberg Springer 2013 Springer-Verlag
published in:	Journal of population economics Vol. 26; no. 2; pp. 455 - 481
Data of publication:	2013
ISSN:	0176-1714 0933-1433 1432-1475 1432-1475
EISSN:	1432-1475
Discipline:	Economics Social Welfare & Social Work
Subjects:	Bildungschance Bildungsabschluss Deutschland Soziale Integration Migrant Recommendations MIGRATION Academic achievement High school students Performance readers Secondary schools High schools Thinking skills Human migration Secondary school teachers Vocational high schools Population Economics Second-generation immigrants Demography Educational tracking PIRLS I21 Labor Economics I28 Economics / Management Science J15 Economic assimilation Social Policy Educational inequalities Germany Social aspects Immigrants Educational evaluation
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