ABSTRACT The literature on the immigrant–native educational achievement gap is suggestive of a better performance of immigrant students in countries practising selective immigration policies. However, the origin of such differences has not been investigated. I considered both important observed characteristics as well as the role of unobservables in the formation of immigrant–native achievement differences in 4 selective immigration countries. I found that, if the comparison is between selective immigration countries as a group and other European/Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, immigrant students in selective immigration countries perform better. However, the results are heterogeneous and different conclusions apply to each of the 4 countries. The findings are discussed in the context of successful immigration policies as screening devices, which induce a self-selection of immigrants with transferable and adaptive skills. Potentially important are also institutional differences with respect to how inclusionary and conducive to the integration of immigrants into the host country policies are.

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选择性移民政策作为筛查手段和移民与当地人的教育成就差距

摘要关于移民与本地教育成就差距的文献表明，在实行选择性移民政策的国家中，移民学生的表现更好。但是，尚未研究这种差异的起源。我既考虑了重要的观察到的特征，又考虑了不可观察因素在四个选择性移民国家中形成的移民与当地成就之间的作用。我发现，如果将选择性移民国家作为一个整体与其他欧洲/经济合作与发展组织（OECD）国家进行比较，则选择性移民国家的移民学生表现会更好。但是，结果是异类的，不同的结论适用于这四个国家。在成功的移民政策作为筛查工具的背景下讨论了这些发现，这些方法可以诱导具有可转移和适应性技能的移民自我选择。在包容性和有利于移民融入东道国政策方面，体制上的差异也可能很重要。