Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/36888 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4985
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper analyzes the degree of intergenerational education mobility among immigrant and native-born youth in Australia. We find that young Australians from non-English-speaking background (NESB) immigrant families have an educational advantage over their English-speaking background (ESB) immigrant and Australian-born peers. Moreover, while highly-educated Australian-born mothers and fathers transfer separate and roughly equal educational advantages to their children, outcomes for ESB (NESB) youth are most closely linked to the educational attainment of their fathers (mothers). On balance, intergenerational mobility in families with two highly-educated parents appears to be much the same for Australian-born and ESB families and is somewhat greater for NESB families. Finally, the greater importance that NESB mothers attribute to education appears to mitigate the educational penalty associated with socio-economic disadvantage.
Subjects: 
Education
immigration
intergenerational
JEL: 
I20
J11
J13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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