Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/46329 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 3256
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
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.
Subjects: 
immigration
educational inequalities
educational tracking
Germany
JEL: 
I21
J15
I28
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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