Title
The Transition from School to Work for Children of Immigrants with Lower-Level Educational Credentials in the United States and France
Document Type
Article
Date
Summer 7-2014
Keywords
second generation, children of immigrants, Mexicans, North Africans, Labor Market, employment, France, United States
Language
English
Disciplines
Sociology
Description/Abstract
This paper compares the transition from school to work among Mexican-origin youth in the United States and North African-origin youth in France relative to the native-majority youth with similar low-level credentials. The goal is to understand the extent to which these groups experience ethnic penalties in the labor market not explained by social class, low-level credentials, or other characteristics. The patterns of employment for second-generation minorities play out differently in the two contexts. In France, lack of access to jobs is a source of disadvantage for North African children of immigrants, while in the United States, second-generation Mexicans do not suffer from a lack of employment. Indeed, the Mexican second-generation shows a uniquely high level of employment. We argue that high levels of youth unemployment, as in France, mean greater ethnic penalties for second-generation minorities.
Recommended Citation
Lutz, Amy, Yaël Brinbaum, and Dalia Abdelhady. 2014. “The Transition from School to Work for Children of Immigrants with Lower-Level Educational Credentials in the United States and France” Comparative Migration Studies 2(2): 227-254.
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