In this paper, we examine the ethnic effect on the intergenerational educational mobility in France. We show that second generation immigrants are more likely to attain high level of education than the French natives when their parents hold low or intermediate levels of education, and less...

We use data from the Trajectoires et Origines survey to analyze the labor-market outcomes of both second-generation immigrants and their French native counterparts. Second-generation immigrants have on average a lower probability of employment and lower wages than French natives. We find however...

Using a recent survey of immigrants to France, we provide a detailed analysis of the educational attainment and labor market performance of various sub-population groups in France. Our results indicate that immigrants to France are less educated than the native born and that these differences...