Table 2 Asylum seeker, parental, and country of origin years of education
From: The human capital selection of young males seeking asylum in Germany
Average individual schooling (\(\bar{S}\)) | Average schooling of peers in the country of origin (\(\bar{S}_{o}\)) | Average parental schooling (\(\bar{S}^{P}\)) | Average schooling of parent’s peers in the country of origin (\(\bar{S}_{o}^{P}\)) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean | SD | Mean | p-value | Mean | SD | Mean | p-value | |
Afghanistan | 7.52 | 5.42 | 6.61 | 0.12 | 5.28 | 5.65 | 3.59 | 0.01 |
Syria | 10.40 | 3.83 | 7.64 | 0.00 | 8.14 | 5.64 | 6.95 | 0.16 |
Iraq | 10.49 | 4.20 | 8.76 | 0.02 | 9.92 | 5.11 | 5.43 | 0.00 |
Gambia | 7.52 | 5.63 | 5.65 | 0.15 | 2.43 | 4.75 | 2.38 | 0.96 |
Others | 9.94 | 4.71 | 8.24 | 0.26 | 5.13 | 6.77 | 5.62 | 0.80 |
Total | 8.85 | 5.04 | 7.25 | 0.00 | 6.41 | 5.96 | 4.65 | 0.00 |
N | 203 | 203 | 203 | 203 | ||||