Immigrant-origin Youth Engagement in Education in Spain during the Great Recession

Abstract

This paper analyses the patterns of engagement in education of young
people of immigrant origin resident in Spain, using data from the
Spanish Labour Force Survey. The results show that the probability that
immigrant-origin youth may be outside the educational system is higher
than the probability for native youth, but only for those who came to
Spain after the age of ten years old. In addition, their reaction to
changes in the employment situation has been less intense. Also,
parental educational resources slow down the reaction to
changes in employment opportunities for the children of native people
and daughters of immigrants, decreasing the inequality within each
group in contexts of recession, but this is not the case for male young
immigrants.