TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Baert, Stijn
AU  - Heiland, Frank
AU  - Korenman, Sanders
        TI  - Native-Immigrant Gaps in Educational and School-to-Work Transitions in the Second Generation: The Role of Gender and Ethnicity
        PY  - 2014/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8752
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp8752
        AB  - We study how native-immigrant (second generation) differences in educational trajectories and school-to-work transitions vary by gender. Using longitudinal Belgian data and adjusting for family background and educational sorting, we find that both male and female second-generation immigrants, especially Turks and Moroccans, lag natives in finishing secondary education and beginning tertiary education when schooling delay is taken into account, though the female gap is larger. The same is true for residual gaps in the transition to work: native males are 30% more likely than comparable Turkish males to be employed three months after leaving school, while the corresponding female gap is 60%. In addition, we study demographic behaviors (fertility, marriage and cohabitation) related to hypotheses that attribute educational and economic gaps to cultural differences between immigrants and natives.
        KW  - economic sociology
KW  - ethnic minorities
KW  - dynamic selection bias
KW  - educational attainment
KW  - gender differentials
KW  - school-to-work transitions
        ER  -