- ASA 2021 Statistics and Information Systems for Policy Evaluation
- Edited by Bruno Bertaccini, Luigi Fabbris, Alessandra Petrucci
Determinants of the transition to upper secondary school: differences between immigrants and Italians
- Patrizio Frederic
- Michele Lalla
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- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/978-88-5518-461-8.04
The determinants of the transition from lower secondary to upper secondary school of Italian and immigrant teenagers (16-19 age range) were identified joining the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) and the Italian Survey on Income and Living Conditions of Families with Immigrants in Italy (IM-SILC) for 2009. A set of individual, family, and contextual characteristics was selected through the Lasso method and a Bayesian approach to explain the choice of upper secondary schooling (yes/no). The transition from the low secondary to upper secondary school showed a complex pattern involving many variables: compared to men, women did not prove to have any differences, many components of income entered the model in a parabolic form, education level and income of parents proved to be very important, as was their occupation. The contextual factors revealed their importance: the latter included the degree of urbanisation, the South macro-region, household tenure status, the amount of optional technological equipment, and so on. Differences between Italians and immigrants disappeared when family background and parental characteristics were taken into account.
- Keywords:
- Lower-to-upper,
- secondary transition,
- school-to-work,
- transition,
- educational inequality,
- parents’ effects on education,
- Lasso method,
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-9073-2878
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-1639-7300
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Chapter Title
Determinants of the transition to upper secondary school: differences between immigrants and Italians
Authors
Patrizio Frederic, Michele Lalla
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English
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10.36253/978-88-5518-461-8.04
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2021
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ASA 2021 Statistics and Information Systems for Policy Evaluation
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BOOK OF SHORT PAPERS of the on-site conference
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Bruno Bertaccini, Luigi Fabbris, Alessandra Petrucci
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2021
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