Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/208577 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Working paper No. 1-2015
Publisher: 
Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Department of Economics, Frederiksberg
Abstract: 
This paper explores potential explanations behind the educational gap between young natives and immigrants using two measures, negative attitudes towards immigrants and networking, which may influence natives and immigrants differently. The paper considers, both theoretically and empirically, the impact of negative attitudes and networking taking into account that these parameters may influence high and uneducated workers as well as immigrants and natives differently, creating different incentives to acquire education for the two ethnic groups. Using rich Danish administrative data, this paper finds evidence that greater negative attitudes increase incentives for males to acquire education and that networking also increases immigrant education.
Subjects: 
incentives
immigrants
education
attitudes
JEL: 
I20
I24
J15
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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