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Catching up? The educational mobility of migrants' and natives' children in Europe
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Abstract Migrants into European countries are often less educated than European natives. We analyse whether migrants’ children are more or less likely than natives’ children to achieve upward educational mobility across generations, and study differences in the factors, which contribute to differences in mob... view more
Migrants into European countries are often less educated than European natives. We analyse whether migrants’ children are more or less likely than natives’ children to achieve upward educational mobility across generations, and study differences in the factors, which contribute to differences in mobility for the two groups. We find that migrants’ descendants are more often upwardly mobile (and less often downwardly mobile) than their native peers in the majority of countries studied, and show that the main factor contributing to these patterns is the education level of parents. Although a lower parental education means that their children are less likely to access the same amount of human, social and financial capital as children of more highly educated parents, migrants’ descendants over the last two generations were able to make significant progress in reducing education gaps with natives.... view less
Keywords
intergenerational mobility; migrant; migration background; level of education; level of education attained; educational mobility; education; socioeconomic factors; comparative research; Europe
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Sociology of Education
Free Keywords
immigrants; 2011 European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC)
Document language
English
Publication Year
2017
Page/Pages
p. 3701-3728
Journal
Applied Economics, 49 (2017) 37
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2016.1267843
ISSN
1466-4283
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed