PISA Results: What a Difference Immigration Law Makes

What a Difference Immigration Law Makes: PISA Results, Migration Background and Social Mobility in Europe and Traditional Countries of Immigration

What a Difference Immigration Law Makes: PISA results, migration background, socioeconomic status and social mo- bility in Europe and traditional countries of immigration

The purpose of this article is to evaluate the importance of social class, migration background and command of national languages for the PISA school performance of teenagers living in European countries (France, Finland, Germany, United Kingdom, and Sweden) and traditional countries of immigration (Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the US). Econometric results show that the influence of the s...

The Effect of Immigration on Criminal Phenomena

Migration as a human phenomenon has some consequences and repercussions. One of these effects is crime commitment and inducing disturbance in land and national security in immigrants' residence country, in other word, international migration, especially illegal migration, have different penal-security effects. Finding reason that the permeability of borders and increasing illegal traffic, drug ...

Migration Policy Can Boost PISA Results: Findings from a Natural Experiment

Migration Policy Can Boost PISA Results: Findings from a Natural Experiment 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 Ass...

The Effect of Immigration on the School Performance of Natives: Cross Country Evidence Using PISA Test Scores

The Effect of Immigration on the School Performance of Natives: Cross Country Evidence Using PISA Test Scores We study whether a higher share of immigrant pupils affects the school performance of natives using aggregate multi-country data from PISA. We find evidence of a negative and statistically significant relationship. The size of the estimated effect is small: doubling the share of immigra...