Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/32089 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
Darmstadt Discussion Papers in Economics No. 164
Publisher: 
Technische Universität Darmstadt, Department of Law and Economics, Darmstadt
Abstract: 
This article analyses the school performance of migrants dependent on peer groups in different international schooling environments. Using data from the international OECD PISA test, we consider social interaction within and between groups of natives and migrants. Results based on social multipliers (Glaeser et al. 2000, 2003) suggest that both native-tonative and migrant-to-migrant peer effects are higher in ability-differencing school systems than in comprehensive schools. Thus, non-comprehensive school systems seem to magnify the prevailing educational inequality between students with a low parental socioeconomic migration background and children from more privileged families.
Subjects: 
Peer effects
migration
education
social multipliers
school systems
parental socioeconomic background
JEL: 
I21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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