Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/110126 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 8925
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Using a recent survey of immigrants to France, we provide a detailed analysis of the educational attainment and labor market performance of various sub-population groups in France. Our results indicate that immigrants to France are less educated than the native born and that these differences can be tracked down to differences in socioeconomic background for most groups of immigrants. Similarly, there is a significant wage gap between immigrant and native-born workers, but this is reduced and sometimes disappears after correcting for selection into employment. In most cases the remaining differences in education and labor market outcomes seem related to the area of origin of the immigrant as well as where the education of the immigrant is obtained.
Subjects: 
immigration
France
labor market performance of immigrants
educational attainment
JEL: 
F22
J15
J61
I26
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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