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This study compares the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment across immigrant groups using the Swiss Census 2000. Determinants of educational outcome and educational mobility are examined. A child’s educational opportunity depends on its parental background. Not only the effect of parental human capital but also other determinants of child educational attainment vary depending on the child’s nationality. Overall educational upward mobility is more pronounced among second generation immigrants than among natives. Children of Turkish, Portuguese and former Yugoslavian origin appear to be most disadvantaged in the process of human capital formation.
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Intergenerational transmission Educational attainment Immigrants Ethnic capital
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Bauer, Philipp e Regina T. Riphahn (2006). "Education and its intergenerational transmission : country of origin-specific evidence for natives and immigrants from Switzerland". Portuguese Economic Journal, 5(2):89-110
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Springer Verlag