Oberdabernig Doris, Schneebaum Alyssa
World Trade Institute (WTI), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Department of Economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria.
Appl Econ. 2017 Aug 9;49(37):3701-3728. doi: 10.1080/00036846.2016.1267843. Epub 2016 Dec 30.
Migrants into European countries are often less educated than European natives. We analyse whether migrants' children are more or less likely than natives' children to achieve upward educational mobility across generations, and study differences in the factors, which contribute to differences in mobility for the two groups. We find that migrants' descendants are more often upwardly mobile (and less often downwardly mobile) than their native peers in the majority of countries studied, and show that the main factor contributing to these patterns is the education level of parents. Although a lower parental education means that their children are less likely to access the same amount of human, social and financial capital as children of more highly educated parents, migrants' descendants over the last two generations were able to make significant progress in reducing education gaps with natives.
移民到欧洲国家的人往往比欧洲本地人受教育程度低。我们分析了移民子女与本地子女相比，实现代际向上教育流动的可能性是更大还是更小，并研究了导致这两组人在流动方面存在差异的因素。我们发现，在所研究的大多数国家中，移民后代比本地同龄人更常实现向上流动（且更不常向下流动），并表明造成这些模式的主要因素是父母的教育水平。尽管父母教育水平较低意味着他们的子女获得与受教育程度较高的父母的子女相同数量的人力、社会和金融资本的可能性较小，但过去两代移民后代在缩小与本地人的教育差距方面取得了显著进展。
