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How Different Are Immigrants? A Cross-Country and Cross-Survey Analysis of Educational Achievement
by
Sylke V. Schnepf
(November 2004)
published in: C. A. Parsons ; T. M. Smeeding (eds.), Immigration and the Transformation of Europe, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006
Abstract:
This paper examines differences in educational achievement between immigrants and
natives in ten countries with a high population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France,
Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the USA. The
first step of the analysis shows how far countries differ regarding immigrants’ educational
disadvantage. In a second step, the paper compares immigrants’ characteristics across
countries focusing predominantly on socioeconomic status, language proficiency, immigrants’
time spent in the host country and patterns of school segregation. Using a regression
framework the last step of the analysis investigates how far these determinants of
educational achievement can explain immigrants’ educational disadvantage in the countries
examined. The paper evaluates whether results found are robust across different sources of
achievement data: the Trends in International Maths and Science Study (TIMSS), the
Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) and the Programme of International
Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS).
Text: See Discussion Paper No. 1398 
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