The Educational Attainment of Second Generation Immigrants from Different Countries of Origin in the EU Member-States

Jaap Dronkers; Fenella Fleischmann

doi:10.1007/978-90-481-3993-4_7

The Educational Attainment of Second Generation Immigrants from Different Countries of Origin in the EU Member-States

Jaap Dronkers^*
, Fenella Fleischmann

^*Corresponding author for this work

Maastricht University

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Abstract

Drawing on the second wave of the European Social Survey, we analyse the educational attainment of 1,039 second generation immigrants from different countries of origin in 13 EU countries, relative to that of the natives of these EU countries. In addition to testing the effects of individual factors, such as parental education and religion, we estimate the effects of macro characteristics of both origin and destination countries. Next to parental educational level, the average educational level of the natives of the countries of destination and the generosity of the naturalization laws have positive effects on the educational level of both male and female second generation immigrants. Other macro-characteristics of countries of origin and destination have no significant effects on educational outcomes of these immigrants. However, Muslim men of the second generation are found to have lower levels of education.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Quality and Inequality of Education
Subtitle of host publication	Cross-National Perspectives
Place of Publication	Dordrecht
Publisher	Springer
Pages	163-204
Number of pages	42
ISBN (Print)	9789048139927
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3993-4_7
Publication status	Published - 2010

Keywords

Countries of origin and destination
Educational attainment
Immigrants
Muslim
Religion
Second generation

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