In this paper, we study the impact of parental human capital background on ethnic educational gaps between second-generation immigrants using a large data set conducted in France in 2003. Estimates from censored random effect ordered Probit regressions show that the skills of immigrants explain...

In this paper, we study the impact of the human capital background on ethnic educational gaps between second-generation immigrants in France. First, we show that the skill of immigrants explains the main part of the ethnic educational gap between their children. More precisely, if the education...

A partir des données de l'enquête sur le Passage à la Retraite des Immigrés réalisée en 2003, cet article cherche à comprendre pourquoi les ressortissants d'origine portugaise résidant en France se singularisent par des intentions de retour au pays à la retraite deux fois supérieures...