-generation groups achieve higher levels than their third-and-higher-generation counterparts. In contrast, in Canada, children of the …This paper reviews the recent research on the determinants of the educational attainment among the children of … immigrants born in Canada and the United States, also known as the second generation. The focus is on the gap in educational …

This paper reviews recent research on the determinants of the labour market outcomes of the children of immigrants in … Canada and in the U.S. New research on labour market outcomes in Canada is also presented. In the aggregate, and with no … controls, the labour market outcomes of the second generation - the children of immigrants - are equal to, or better than …

of Canadians is offered, as are estimates of the degree of generational mobility among the children of immigrants …. Persistence in the years of schooling across the generations is rather weak between immigrants and their Canadian born children … second generation children, and if anything negatively correlated. Finally we find that the intergenerational transmission of …

‐secondary education (PSE) among the children of immigrants in Canada. The YITS respondents considered to be the children of immigrants in … primary schooling and take advantage of PSE opportunities in Canada and ii) those who were born in Canada to parents who were … children’s education. However, substantial differences …