Parental ethnic identity and educational attainment of second-generation immigrants.

Autor/in	Schüller, Simone
Titel	Parental ethnic identity and educational attainment of second-generation immigrants.
Quelle	Berlin: DIW (2012), 29 S., 485,30 KB PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (3) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	SOEPpapers on multidisciplinary panel data research. 443
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Bildungsverhalten; Schätzung; Bildungsniveau; Kulturelle Identität; Generationenbeziehung; Migrant; Deutschland
Abstract	A lack of cultural integration is often blamed for hindering immigrant families' economic progression. This paper is a first attempt to explore whether immigrant parents' ethnic identity affects the next generation's human capital accumulation in the host country. Empirical results based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) indicate that maternal majority as well as paternal minority identity are positively related to the educational attainment of second-generation youth - even controlling for differences in ethnicity, family background and years-since-migration. Additional tests show that the effect of maternal majority identity can be explained by mothers' German language proficiency, while the beneficial effect of fathers' minority identity is not related to language skills and thus likely to stem from paternal minority identity per se.
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2012/4