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25 Nov
19:00 - 20:30

Maastricht Migration Lecture series - Cross-nationally comparative research on racial and ethnic skill disparities: questions, findings, and pitfalls

The third lecture of the Maastricht Migration lecture series ‘Cross-nationally comparative research on racial and ethnic skill disparities: questions, findings, and pitfalls’ will be given by Prof. dr. Mark Levels, Professor of Health, Education and Work at Maastricht University on the 25th of November from 19.00 – 20:30.

The lecture will focus on the racial and ethnic inequalities in skills and attitudes of children in primary and secondary education between 2000 and 2017, where it is seen that the successful participation of immigrant children and the children of immigrants in societies and labour market of western countries depends largely on their childhood experiences.

A systematic review of studies that have used large-scale assessment data for studying immigrant children’s educational performance will be presented. The relevance of origin and destination country differences will be discussed for explaining differences in math, reading, and science performance and the evolution of research questions that have been addressed with such data will be identified. Major strengths, shortcomings and the main findings will too be discussed. Additional findings from a study of civic attitudes of immigrant children will be presented. The literature will be placed in a wider societal context, where implications will be discussed and a critical assessment of how the findings are used in the public and political debates will be provided.

  You can watch the livestream here on 25 November from 19:00 - 20:30.

About Prof. dr. Mark Levels

Prof. dr. Mark Levels (1977) is a Professor of Health, Education and Work at Maastricht University. He is program director of the research program Health, Skills, and Inequality at the Research Centre for Education and the Labor Market (ROA) of Maastricht University, member of the ROA management team, a fellow of the Berlin Social Science Centre (WZB), a fellow of the Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE)of Maastricht University, and is a fellow of the Amsterdam Centre for Learning Analytics (ACLA). He teaches macrosociology at University College Maastricht (UCM).

Mark uses quantitative, qualitative and experimental sociological methods to study how individuals’ lives are shaped by government. He leads a large international research consortium that studies how governments can mediate the impact of AI and robotization on work, education, inequality, and welfare in Europe (TECHNEQUALITY). He is also one of the principal architects of the Nationaal Cohortonderzoek Onderwijs (NCO) and was appointed as one of the first national coordinators of the NCO with the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). The NCO is one of the largest and most comprehensive research efforts on education in the world. He also currently coordinates an international research group that studies individual and institutional determinants of youth inactivity in various countries (NEET).

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