Dynamics of English Fluency Return for Refugees and Other Immigrants in the United States

Shaeye, Abdihafit

doi:10.1080/15562948.2018.1547939

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“…Economic migrants tend to arrive with greater education and language skills and are also likely to have high educational expectations and aspirations for their children ex ante. Refugees, on the other hand, are those who were forced to leave their home country, so they do not necessarily have the skills essential for quicker integration into the host country (Cortes 2004, Shaeye 2019. But they face favorable reception policies in the host country.…”

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“…First generation refugees have different labor market outcomes than their economic immigrant counterparts. Investigating differences in returns to schooling between refugees and nonrefugees, Shaeye (2022) finds that first generation economic immigrants have higher levels of education than refugee immigrants at arrival although the gap diminishes over time. Moreover, non-refugee immigrants also earn higher returns to schooling at arrival and over time.…”

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Education Attainment of Children of Economic and Refugee Immigrants in the United States

Shaeye

2022

Migration Letters

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This paper analyzes the educational attainment of second-generation economic and refugee immigrants. Data from the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS) survey are used to estimate two measures of educational outcomes: securing a college degree, and years of schooling completed. Results show that, on average, children of refugees have educational attainment outcomes that are on par with those of the children of economic immigrants. They have similar odds of college degree achievement and are also as likely to acquire similar years of schooling as the children of economic immigrants. Accounting for important controls such as parents’ socio-economic status index do not affect the results.

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Section: Background and Related Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%