Catching-up: The educational mobility of migrants’ and natives’ children in Europe

Oberdabernig, Doris Anita; Schneebaum, Alyssa (2015). Catching-up: The educational mobility of migrants’ and natives’ children in Europe (Unpublished) NCCR Working Papers

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Migrants into European countries are often less educated than European natives. We investigate whether migrants' children are able to catch up to their native counterparts in educational attainment, and analyze the drivers of differences in intergenerational educational upward mobility between natives' versus migrants' descendants. We find that migrants' children are more likely than natives' children to surpass their parents' educational attainment in the majority of countries studied. Their parents' low education is often the strongest determinant for their ability to move up in education class across generations.

Item Type:	Working Paper
Division/Institute:	03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Other Institutions > Teaching Staff, Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences 02 Faculty of Law > Department of Economic Law > World Trade Institute 10 Strategic Research Centers > World Trade Institute 02 Faculty of Law > Department of Economic Law > NCCR International Trade Regulation
UniBE Contributor:	Oberdabernig, Doris Anita
Subjects:	300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 340 Law 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 380 Commerce, communications & transportation
Publisher:	NCCR Working Papers
Language:	English
Submitter:	Doris Anita Oberdabernig
Date Deposited:	24 Apr 2015 11:00
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 14:46
JEL Classification:	I21, I24, J11
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/68121