By using administrative register data from Denmark, the educational attainment of children of immigrants is examined. The focus is on immigrant children from non-Western countries and to examine the relative importance of being born in Denmark compared to abroad. By comparing upper secondary completion rates for the native children and immigrant children graduating from compulsory school between 1990 and 2007, the size of the native-immigrant gap is examined, and it is studied whether the immigrants are converging to the educational attainment of the natives.

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