Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/71625 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 7230
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In this paper, I study the impact of immigrant concentration in primary schools on educational outcomes of native and migrant students in a major Austrian city between 1980-2001. The outcome measures of interest are track attendance after primary education and grade repetition. Using variation in the fraction of students with migration background among adjacent cohorts within schools and drawing special attention to time trends, the analysis shows that migrant students suffer from school-grades with a higher share of migrant students, while natives are not affected on average. These negative spill-over effects are particularly strong between students from the same area of origin, indicating that peer groups in schools form along ethnic dimensions.
Subjects: 
education
ethnic minorities
migrants
segregation
school choice
JEL: 
I21
J15
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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