Gendered ethnic choice effects at the transition to upper secondary education in Switzerland.

ABSTRACT: Positive ethnic choice effects, namely a higher likelihood of attending more demanding educational tracks among students of immigrant origin compared to their native peers, are observed in many countries. Immigrant optimism, and thus the striving for upward social mobility, is seen as a key mechanism for explaining ethnic choice effects. However, research on this topic often ignores gendered educational pathways and trajectories. Based on data from German-speaking Switzerland on two school-leaver cohorts, our interest is on whether ethnic choice effects are observable for both female and male students whose parents were born in the Balkans, Turkey or Portugal. In addition, we examine the extent to which aspirations contribute to explaining ethnic choice effects for both genders. To disenta

SUBMITTER: Glauser D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10150114 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature