The educational attainment of second generation immigrants in Canada : Niveau de scolarité des immigrants de seconde génération au Canada, une analyse fondée sur l'Enquête sociale générale

They found that the educational level of first-generation immigrants had no effect on the educational attainment of their children, while in the case of native-born Germans, parental education had an effect on the schooling of the progeny. [...] The Educational Attainment of Second Generation Immigrants in Canada: Analysis based on the General Social Survey 3 4 The Educational Attainment of Second Generation Immigrants in Canada: Analysis based on the General Social Survey 2. The Data The sample used in this study was extracted from the General Social Survey (GSS), a program established in 1985 with main objectives being the collection of [...] The mothers of the second-generation immigrants were more likely to work full-time during their child’s childhood than the Canadian-born mothers, while there was virtually no difference between the fathers of second-generation immigrants and the others as the majority of them worked full-time. [...] The Educational Attainment of Second Generation Immigrants in Canada: Analysis based on the General Social Survey 9 10 The Educational Attainment of Second Generation Immigrants in Canada: Analysis based on the General Social Survey 3. Model Specification and Methodology The model is a version of the ordered-probit model with adjustments for right-censored observations, and it is based on the foll [...] Thus, the delta method has to be used for the calculation of their (asymptotic) errors.5 4 With this specification of the distribution of the errors, the model becomes a version of the ordered-probit model adjusted to account for censored observations.