Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35406 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3877
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We estimate a flexible dynamic model of education choices and early career employment outcomes of the French population. Individuals are allowed to choose between 4 options: continue to the next grade, accept a permanent contract, accept a temporary contract, or withdraw from the labor force (a residual state). Our analysis focuses on the comparison between French Second-Generation Immigrants whose parents are born in Africa and French-natives. We find that schooling attainments explain around two thirds of the differences in access to early career employment stability. However, one third cannot be linked to observed investment in human capital.
Subjects: 
Second-generation immigrants
schooling attainments
fixed term employment
JEL: 
I2
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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