Onderwijsachterstanden bij allochtone kinderen. Het ontbrekende onderzoek

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Current quantitative sociological research on the school careers of ethnic minority youth in the Netherlands focuses on whether parents' socioeconomic status (SES) is totally responsible for their children's educational careers. Here, a matching procedure is used to determine the extent to which first-generation ethnic minority parents have an equivalent SES compared to native Dutch parents. SES is revealed as a very important explanatory factor, but not the only one. Furthermore, since matching considerably reduced the number of people in the Dutch as well as in the ethnic minority sample, it seems that both groups are only partially compared on SES. Thus, a call is made for more qualitative research that might lead to insight into process variables, while quantitative research strongly focuses on product variables. 2 Tables, 35 References. Adapted from the source document.