How Different Are Immigrants? : A Cross-Country and Cross-Survey Analysis of Educational Achievement

This paper examines differences in educational achievement between immigrants and natives in ten countries with a high population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the USA. The first step of the analysis shows how far countries differ regarding immigrants? educational disadvantage. In a second step, the paper compares immigrants? characteristics across countries focusing predominantly on socioeconomic status, language proficiency, immigrants? time spent in the host country and patterns of school segregation. U... Mehr ...