Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/260004 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2011:14
Publisher: 
Lund University, School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Lund
Abstract: 
Recent research has shown that there is a substantial skill difference in Sweden between natives and second-generation immigrants. The objective of this study is to find out whether there exists a relationship between ethnic school segregation and the individual's human capital. The variation in ethnic concentration rate between cohorts within a school generally does not affect the individual's human capital outcome. However when estimating specific peer influences between different ethnic groups (first-generation immigrants, second generation immigrants with two foreign-born parent and second generation immigrants with one foreign-born parent) the study shows three major findings. First, for men (both natives and second-generation immigrants) there is a general negative effect of having a large share of first-generation immigrant schoolmates. Second, for both men and women a large share of schoolmates with a completely foreign background (non-native parents) has a negative influence on the Swedish grades of second-generation immigrants with two foreign-born parents. Third, for men there seem to exist specific and positive peer influences within the groups of second-generation immigrants with either one or two foreign-born parents.
Subjects: 
Ethnic Segregation
second-generation immigrants
human capital test score gap
JEL: 
I21
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size
131.95 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.