This paper compares the educational performance of the children of immigrants to the children in their parents' home …. Controlling for family background, I find that the children of immigrants in Germany perform better than peers in every origin …

children from these marriages. Although second-generation immigrants with one native parent generally have lower dropout rates … than those with two foreign-born parents, the relationship reverses when steps are taken to control for observable and … unobservable background characteristics. That is, immigrants that marry natives have children that are more likely to dropout of …

participation, employment, and occupational status of the children of immigrants in Germany. Most second generation men have much …