Migration Background and Educational Tracking: Is there a Double Disadvantage for Second-Generation Immigrants?

Elke Lüdemann () and Guido Schwerdt

No 3256, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: Research on immigrants’ educational disadvantages largely focuses on differences in student achievement tests. Exploiting data from the German PIRLS extension, we find that second-generation immigrants face additional disadvantages with respect to grades and teacher recommendations for secondary school tracks that cannot be explained by differences in student achievement tests and general intelligence. Second-generation immigrations are disproportionately affected by prevailing social inequalities at the transition to secondary school tracks due to their generally less favorable socio-economic background. We additionally provide new evidence suggesting that these inequalities might be related to the failing economic assimilation of immigrants.

Keywords: immigration; educational inequalities; educational tracking; Germany (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I28 J15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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