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Long live the American dream: Self-selection and inequality-persistence among American immigrants
Ruist, Joakim - 2017
This paper aims to explain the slow economic convergence between groups of different ancestries in the US, i.e. why these groups experience even less intergenerational mobility than individuals in the same country. It shows how excessively persistent inequality may be a long-lasting outcome of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533129
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Immigration: The European Experience
Dustmann, Christian; Frattini, Tommaso - 2011
This paper starts with a brief historical overview of immigration in Europe. We then provide a comprehensive analysis … their children relative to natives. We show that immigrants – in particular those from non-EU countries – are severely … disadvantaged in most countries, even if we compare them to natives with the same measurable skills. We conclude with a discussion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533014
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Immigration: The European Experience
dustmann, christian; Frattini, Tommaso - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2011
This paper starts with a brief historical overview of immigration in Europe. We then provide a comprehensive analysis … their children relative to natives. We show that immigrants – in particular those from non-EU countries – are severely … disadvantaged in most countries, even if we compare them to natives with the same measurable skills. We conclude with a discussion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421742
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Temporary Foreign Workers and Firms: Theory and Canadian Evidence
Brochu, Pierre; Gross, Till; Worswick, Christopher - 2016
The goal of our paper is to better understand the economic implications of Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) programs as well as comprehend the underlying reasons for the rapid expansion of the number of TFWs hired by employers under the Canadian program brought to light in 2014. We present an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532921
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Ethnicity and Second Generation Immigrants in Britain
Dustmann, Christian; Frattini, Tommaso; Theodoropoulos, … - 2010
This paper reviews the labour market performance and educational attainment of ethnic minorities and second generation immigrants in the UK over the last three decades. We first describe the size and composition of the minority population and its regional distribution over time, and investigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533005
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Immigrant Category of Admission of the Parents and Outcomes of the Children: How far does the Apple Fall?
Warman, Casey; Worswick, Christopher; Webb, Matthew - 2016
Immigrants in many Western countries have experienced poor economic outcomes. This has led to a lack of integration of child immigrants (the 1.5 generation) and the second generation in some countries. However, in Canada, child immigrants and the second generation have on average integrated very...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533021
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Ethnicity and Second Generation Immigrants in Britain
dustmann, christian; Frattini, Tommaso; Theodoropoulos, … - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2010
This paper reviews the labour market performance and educational attainment of ethnic minorities and second generation immigrants in the UK over the last three decades. We first describe the size and composition of the minority population and its regional distribution over time, and investigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009317941
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Intergenerational Mobility in the Land of Inequality
Pinotti, Paolo; Britto, Diogo G. C.; Fonseca, Alexandre; … - 2022
We provide the first estimates of intergenerational income mobility for a developing country, namely Brazil. We measure formal income from tax and employment registries, and we train machine learning models on census and survey data to predict informal income. The data reveal a much higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532734
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All I have to do is dream? The role of aspirations in intergenerational mobility and well-being
Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Odermatt, Reto - 2020
In this paper, we study the determinants and consequences of educational and occupational aspirations. Basing our enquiry on the British NCDS 1958 cohort data, we assess the importance of aspirations for social mobility above and beyond other established determinants. We document educational and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532775
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Inference for Ranks with Applications to Mobility across Neighborhoods and Academic Achievement across Countries
Mogstad, Magne; Romano, Joseph P.; Shaikh, Azeem M.; … - 2020
It is often desired to rank different populations according to the value of some feature of each population. For example, it may be desired to rank neighborhoods according to some measure of intergenerational mobility or countries according to some measure of academic achievement. These rankings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533113