A STUDY: EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT OF SECOND-GENERATION IMMIGRANTS IN ETHNIC GROUPS IN THE UK

一般来说，移民对东道国的国内生产总值增长有积极影响，因为高技能移民可以改善该国的人力资本总量，从而有助于创新和生产力增长。另一方面，移民对本地出生者就业和工资的影响一直是公众争论的焦点，近二十年来，移民一代的研究成为一个新兴的研究热点.第一代移民对财政的净影响一般都是负面的，而第二代移民对财政的净影响则是正面的，因为他们的教育程度和收入都高于父母。研究表明，一些影响因素，包括父母的教育程度、家庭收入、种族认同、语言和流利程度，和学校质量等因素对第二代移民的教育成就有影响。然而，迄今为止，关于第二代移民和不同种族群体的研究文献相对较少，本研究旨在分析英国不同种族群体的第二代移民与英国本地人在教育程度和收入方面的差距，并进一步揭示其背后的主导因素。

Immigration in general has a positive impact on the GDP growth of a host country as the highly skilled migrants canimprove the total stock of human capital of the country, thus contribute to innovation and productivity growth. Onthe other hand, the impact of immigration on the employment and wages of the native-born remains a coreconcern in the public debates.Over last two decades, there is an emerging research focus on immigrant generation. While the first-generationimmigrants observed having had an averagely negative net fiscal impact, the second-generation immigrants havecontributed positively because of their higher educational attainment level and earnings than that of their parents.Research has shown that a number of influential factors, including parental education, household income, ethnicidentity, language spoken and fluency, and school quality etc have impact on the educational attainment of thesecond-generation immigrants. To date, however, literature concerning the second-generation immigrants anddifferent ethnic groups is comparatively scarce.This proposed research aims to analyse the gaps of education attainment and earning between secondgenerationimmigrants of different ethnic groups and natives in the UK, and further to reveal what the dominantfactors are behind them.