Kick it Like Özil? Decomposing the Native-Migrant Education Gap

26 Pages Posted: 7 Jul 2012 Last revised: 16 Apr 2023

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Annabelle Krause-Pilatus

IZA Institute of Labor Economics

Ulf Rinne

IZA Institute of Labor Economics

Simone Schüller

CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute) - Ifo Institute; Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA); FBK-IRVAPP

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Abstract

We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to analyze the determinants of the persistent native-migrant gap. One part of the gap can be attributed to differences in socioeconomic background and another part remains unexplained. Faced with this decomposition problem, we apply linear and matching decomposition methods. Accounting for differences in socioeconomic background, we find that migrant pupils are just as likely to receive recommendations for or to enroll at any secondary school type as native children. Comparable natives, in terms of family background, thus face similar difficulties as migrant children. Our results point at more general inequalities in secondary schooling in Germany which are not migrant-specific.

Keywords: tracking, Germany, human capital, education, migration

JEL Classification: J15, J24, I21

Suggested Citation

Krause-Pilatus, Annabelle and Rinne, Ulf and Schüller, Simone, Kick it Like Özil? Decomposing the Native-Migrant Education Gap. IZA Discussion Paper No. 6696, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2101983 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2101983

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