-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 …

(EU-SILC) allow estimates of the extent to which immigrant and nonimmigrant children are poor across a wide range of rich … children. For all of the fourteen countries in the combined sample, children in migrant families have greater market …-income poverty rates and greater disposable income poverty rates than do children in native-born families by a factor of about 2 to 1 …

that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes …Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … have no effect on the educational outcomes of children who are at least 20 because they have already completed their …