Educational Attainment of Second-Generation Immigrants: A U.S.-Canada Comparison
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Keywords
second-generation immigrants; educational attainment; counterfactual-simulation; dynamic structural model; U.S.-Canada comparison;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2015-01-09 (Education)
- NEP-MIG-2015-01-09 (Economics of Human Migration)
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