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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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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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analysis suggests significant differences in the probability of downward occupational mobility by gender, immigration status … market position at the time of immigration, but are also able to reach their original occupational status much faster than …
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analysis suggests significant differences in the probability of downward occupational mobility by gender, immigration status … market position at the time of immigration, but are also able to reach their original occupational status much faster than …
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increases intergenerational income mobility among natives and by showing that immigration may, under specific circumstances … decades, it is important to know both how migrants integrate into the destination countries and how immigration affects … natives. Beside the motivation of the topic, the introduction in Chapter 1 of the volume summarizes three studies of the …
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natives, we find that the children of Italian immigrants exhibit high intergenerational mobility and no less opportunities … than natives to achieve high schooling degrees. These findings suggest a rejection of the failed assimilation hypothesis …
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Using long-running data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (1984-2012), we investigate the impact of paternal unemployment on child labor market and education outcomes. We first describe correlation patterns and then use sibling fixed effects and the Gottschalk (1996) method to identify the...
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Using harmonized household survey data, we analyse long run social mobility in the US, the UK, and Germany and test recent theories of multigenerational persistence of socio-economic status. In this country comparison setting we find evidence against Gregory Clark's "universal law of social...
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This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what...
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Motivated by contradictory evidence on intergenerational mobility in Germany, I present a cross-country comparison of Germany and the US, reassessing the question of whether intergenerational mobility is higher in Germany than the US. I can reproduce the standard result from the literature,...
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