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A large literature shows that the children of immigrants have high upward mobility. However, immigrants vary vastly in how they are selected: while economic immigrants are chosen based on skill and education, refugees migrate at times of conflict and war. In this paper, we study the mobility of...
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We link administrative data on tax returns across two generations of Italians to study the degree of intergenerational mobility. We estimate that a child with parental income below the median is expected to belong to the 44th percentile of its own income distribution as an adult, and the...
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We estimate the intergenerational elasticity (IGE) of income for the Netherlands using complete population data for around 177,000 28-year olds. We find that IGEs are much lower when actual individual income data are used rather than proxies or aggregates for income. Though low, daughters' IGEs...
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Social mobility - the extent to which social and economic position in adulthood is facilitated or constrained by family origins - has taken an increasingly prominent role in public and policy discourse. Recent studies have documented that not only who your parents are, but also where you grow...
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children of immigrants catch up with natives. Using administrative data for the Netherlands, we find large gaps in the absolute … income mobility of immigrants relative to natives (-23%), suggestive of large, persistent income gaps for future generations … substantial heterogeneity by country of origin. Children of immigrants from China actually have higher incomes than natives, which …
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.S., including weight, height, the body mass index (BMI), asthma and depression for both natives and immigrants. We show that both …, immigrants experience higher persistence than natives in weight and BMI. We also find that mothers' education decreases children …'s weight and BMI for natives, while single motherhood increases weight and BMI for both native and immigrant children. Finally …
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issue even with the improved questionnaire. -- immigration ; intergenerational progress ; ethnic identity ; Hispanics …
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We compare the intergenerational earnings mobility of immigrants with natives in Sweden. We find an overall convergence … in average earnings between immigrants and natives. This convergence hides a divergence in average earnings between …
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for enlarged-EU migrants after 2007, in relation to other migrants and natives. After investigating the effects of …
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This paper estimates the returns to English-speaking fluency on the socioeconomic outcomes of childhood immigrants. We further investigate whether Muslim childhood immigrants face additional hurdles in economic and social integration into the host country. Motivated by the critical age...
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