Migration policy can boost PISA results - Findings from a natural experiment.

Autor/inn/en	Cattaneo, Maria Alejandra; Wolter, Stefan C.
Titel	Migration policy can boost PISA results - Findings from a natural experiment.
Quelle	Aarau: SKBF (2012), 22 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	SKBF Staff Paper. 7
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
URN	urn:nbn:de:0111-opus-53719
Schlagwörter	Empirische Untersuchung; Schüler; Schweiz; Ausländerpolitik; Migrationspolitik; Schulerfolg; Förderung; Förderung; Schüler; Schulerfolg; Schülerleistung; Ausländerpolitik; Migrationshintergrund; Migrationspolitik; Migrationshintergrund; PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment); Schweiz
Abstract	Switzerland radically changed its migration policy in the mid-nineties from a "non-qualified only" policy to one that favors the immigration of highly qualified migrants. To analyze the impact of this change on the schooling outcomes of migrants, this paper compares the PISA (OECD Programme for International Student Assessment) results from 2000, which were not yet affected by the change in the migration policy, with the PISA 2009 test. Using a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition analysis, we find that almost 70% of the 43-point increase (more than one standardized school year) in the PISA scores of first-generation immigrant students in an environment with stagnant Swiss PISA results was due to changes in the individual background characteristics of the new immigrants (direct effect) and improved school composition (lower shares of students who did not speak the testing languages as an indirect effect). The indirect effects also indicate that internationally comparative analyses should more fully consider differences in national migration policies when assessing the success of migrant integration. (DIPF/Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2012/3