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Heterogeneity in the Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment: Evidence from Switzerland on Natives and Second Generation Immigrants

Bauer, Philipp; Riphahn, Regina T. - Center for Globalization and Europeanization of the … - 2005

This study applies rich data from the 2000 Swiss census to investigate the patterns of intergenerational education transmission for natives and second generation immigrants. The level of secondary schooling attained by youth aged 17 is related to their parents\' educational outcomes using data...

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Education and its intergenerational transmission: country of origin-specific evidence for natives and immigrants from Switzerland

Bauer, Philipp; Riphahn, Regina - In: Portuguese Economic Journal 5 (2006) 2, pp. 89-110

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005598138

Heterogeneity in the Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment: Evidence from Switzerland on Natives and Second Generation Immigrants

Bauer, Philipp; Riphahn, Regina T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822155

Timing of school tracking as a determinant of intergenerational transmission of education

Bauer, Philipp; Riphahn, Regina T. - In: Economics Letters 91 (2006) 1, pp. 90-97

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Heterogeneity in the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment: evidence from Switzerland on natives and second-generation immigrants

Bauer, Philipp; Riphahn, Regina - In: Journal of Population Economics 20 (2007) 1, pp. 121-148

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Ethnic Discrimination in Education: The Swiss Case

Bauer, Philipp; Sheldon, George - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum, Universität Basel - 2008

This paper investigates the role that discrimination plays in the educational marginalizationof foreign youth commonly observed in European countries with a long guestworkertradition. Economic theory offers two basic explanations for discrimination ofthis form: taste-based discrimination arising...

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Income in Switzerland - A Comparison between Natives and Immigrants

Bauer, Philipp - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum, Universität Basel - 2006

This paper analyses the intergenerational income mobility for natives and immigrants inSwitzerland. An IV approach based on data from two different data sets is used. As there is noadequate data on fathers, I revert to information from a period that differs from actual fathers’work period....

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Institutional determinants of intergenerational education transmission — Comparing alternative mechanisms for natives and immigrants

Bauer, Philipp C.; Riphahn, Regina T. - In: Labour Economics 25 (2013) C, pp. 110-122

We use census data on 26 Swiss cantons to determine the association of educational institutions with the intergenerational transmission of education. We test whether education transmission is higher when children enter kindergarten and school earlier and when tracking occurs at a later age. In...

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Heterogenity in the Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment: Evidence from Switzerland on Natives and Second

Bauer, Philipp C.; Riphahn, Regina T. - Center for European, Governance and Economic … - 2005

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Age at School Entry and Intergenerational Educational Mobility

Bauer, Philipp C.; Riphahn, Regina T. - CESifo - 2009

We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children first enter (primary) school. Early age at school entry significantly affects mobility and reduces the relative advantage of children of better educated parents.

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