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In this paper, I analyze intergenerational mobility of immigrants and natives in Germany. Using the German … Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP), I find intergenerational elasticities that range from 0.19 to 0.26 for natives and from 0.37 to 0 … Germany than in the U.S. However, as in the U.S., I find greater mobility among German natives than among immigrants. Moreover …
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The purpose of this paper is to study the immigrant performance in France and the impacts on the natives by drawing on … natives, and do they harm or improve the labour market situation of natives; does the presence of immigrants alter the … internal migration flows of natives; and what is the role of the business cycle and natives? sentiments on the immigrant flows …
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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 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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We compare the earnings and the intergenerational earnings mobility of immigrants with natives in Sweden. We find an … overall convergence in average earnings between immigrants and natives across generations. This convergence hides a divergence …
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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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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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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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child income rank for both natives and second-generation immigrants. Results from a detailed Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition … indicate that up to 21% of the gap between income ranks of second-generation immigrants and natives is related to differences … mobility is relatively high in Estonia both for natives and children of foreign-born, the native-immigrant earnings gap has not …
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achievements between immigrants and natives. However, we find that the children of Italian immigrants exhibit fairly high … opportunities than natives to achieve high schooling degrees. These findings suggest a rejection of the failed integration …
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