Why We Should Care About Regional Origins: Educational Selectivity Among Refugees and Labor Migrants in Western Europe.

ABSTRACT: Immigrant selectivity describes the notion that migrants are not a random sample of the population at origin, but differ in certain traits such as educational attainment from individuals who stay behind. In this article, we move away from group-level descriptions of educational selectivity and measure it as an individual's relative position in the age- and gender-specific educational distribution of the country of origin. We describe the extent of educational selectivity for a selection of Western European destinations as well as a selection of origin groups ranging from recent refugee to labor migrant populations. By contrasting refugees to labor migrants, we address longstanding assumptions about typical differences in the degree of selectivity between different types of immigrants. Acco

SUBMITTER: Sporlein C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8022669 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature