TY  - GEN
AU  - Frederic,Patrizio
AU  - Lalla,Michele
TI  - Chapter Determinants of the transition to upper secondary school: differences between immigrants and Italians
SN  - 978-88-5518-461-8.04
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Florence
PB  - Firenze University Press
KW  - Lower-to-upper
KW  - secondary transition
KW  - school-to-work
KW  - transition
KW  - educational inequality
KW  - parents' effects on education
KW  - Lasso method
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/56353/1/26222.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/82935
ER  -