Inequality of learning amongst immigrant children in industrialised countries.

Autor/in	Schnepf, Sylke V.
Institution	Hamburgisches WeltWirtschaftsInstitut
Titel	Inequality of learning amongst immigrant children in industrialised countries. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Bildungsungleichheit unter Migrantenkindern in industrialisierten Ländern.
Quelle	(2008), 38 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	HWWI Research Paper. 1-12
Beigaben	Tabellen 5; grafische Darstellungen 7; Anhang
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
ISSN	1861-504X
Schlagwörter	Bildungsbeteiligung; Bildungschance; Soziale Ungleichheit; Kind; Lernen; Industriestaat; Migration; Ausbildung
Abstract	"Literature examining immigrants' educational disadvantage across countries focuses generally on average differences in educational outcomes between immigrants and natives disguising thereby that immigrants are a highly heterogeneous group. The aim of this paper is to examine educational inequalities among immigrants in eight high immigration countries: Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and USA. Results indicate that for almost all countries immigrants' educational dispersion is considerably higher than for natives. For most countries higher educational dispersion derives from very low achieving immigrants. Quantile regression results reveal that at lower percentiles language skills impact more on educational achievement than at the top of the achievement distribution. Results are presented separately for immigrants of different age cohorts, varying time of immigrants' residence in the host country and subject examined (maths and reading) highlighting thereby the different patterns found by immigrant group and achievement measure." (author's abstract).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2008/4