Explaining the attainment of the second-generation: When does parental relative education matter?

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作者
Ferrara, Alessandro [1 ,2 ]
Luthra, Renee [3 ]
机构
[1] Free Univ Berlin, Inst Sociol, Reichpietschufer 50, D-10785 Berlin, Germany
[2] Free Univ Berlin, WZB Berlin Social Sci Ctr, Reichpietschufer 50, D-10785 Berlin, Germany
[3] Univ Essex Colchester, Univ Essex, Dept Sociol, Colchester CO4 3SQ, England
基金
英国经济与社会研究理事会;
关键词
Immigrant selectivity; Relative education; Immigrant paradox; Second generation; ETHNIC INEQUALITIES; IMMIGRANTS; ACHIEVEMENT; CHILDREN; ASPIRATIONS; SELECTIVITY; TRANSMISSION; EXPECTATIONS; ADVANTAGE; FAMILIES;
D O I
10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103016
中图分类号
C91 [社会学];
学科分类号
030301 ; 1204 ;
摘要
How can we understand unexplained variation in the educational outcomes of the children of immigrants? A growing literature posits that standard educational transmission models fail to explain national origin differences in attainment because they ignore immigrant selectivity - the degree to which immigrants differ from non-migrants in their sending countries. The immigrant selectivity hypothesis is usually tested using indicators of parents' relative or "contextual" educational attainment, measuring their rank in the educational attainment distribution of their country of origin. However, using this proxy, current support for the hypothesis is mixed. We outline three conditions for the use of educational selectivity as a proxy for relative social positioning among the children of immigrants. We test our conditions using an adult and a youth sample from a large household panel survey in the UK. We supplement our analyses by exploring relative education data from prior research on Italy, France and the United States. Triangulating these varied sources, we illustrate cases when our three conditions do and do not hold, providing evidence from the UK and other contexts. We provide guidelines on the use of relative education as a measure of relative social standing in cross-national research as well as an assessment of the immigrant selectivity hypothesis in explaining second-generation educational outcomes.
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