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The Pursuit of Post-Secondary Education: A Comparison of First Nations, African, Asian and European Canadian Youth

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Thiessen, Victor
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Using the nationally representative longitudinal Youth in Transition Survey, this paper examines the argument that inferior educational outcomes of various visible minorities and immigrants can be attributed to their socio-economic disadvantages, while superior outcomes of other visible minorities is due to their cultural supports. The analyses document sizable inequalities in educational pathways of First Nations, visible minorities, and immigrants. However, neither structural location nor cultural attributes (nor both in conjunction) totally account for differences in their educational pathways nor can they be reduced to a simple pattern whereby structural disadvantages account for inferior pathways and cultural factors for superior ones.

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Paper provided by UBC Department of Economics in its series CLSRN Working Papers with number clsrn_admin-2009-28.

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Length: 35 pages
Date of creation: 22 Apr 2009
Date of revision: 22 Apr 2009
Handle: RePEc:ubc:clssrn:clsrn_admin-2009-28

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Keywords: Aboriginals; Visible Minorities; Immigrants; Academic Performance; Educational Attainment; Post-Secondary Education;

Find related papers by JEL classification:
I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
I29 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Other

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