Poor background or low returns? Why immigrant students in Germany perform so poorly in the programme for international student assessment

Education Economics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 215-230

  Ammermueller, Andreas ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decomposition; Educational production; Immigration; PISA E

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; IMMIGRATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; STUDENT; TESTING METHOD;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 34247232131     PISSN: 09645292     EISSN: 14695782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09645290701263161     Document Type: Article

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