@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp6899, author={Smith, James P.}, title={The Human Capital (Schooling) of Immigrants in America}, year={2012}, month={Oct}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={6899}, url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp6899}, abstract={This paper deals with several salient issues about immigrants to the United States and their education. These issues include a comparison of the schooling accomplishments of immigrants and the native-born that emphasizes the considerable diversity in the schooling accomplishments among different immigrant sub-groups and between legal and undocumented migrants. I also examine the role of the foreign-born who come to the United States for post-secondary schooling. Finally, I show that the educational generational progress among all groups of immigrants to the United States has been quite impressive during the 19th and 20th centuries.}, keywords={immigration;education}, }