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 … in parental background. Once we control for education, family, residence and industry related choices, differences in the …

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 …

, are high. This persistence is correlated with high returns to education, relatively low progressivity in public … investments in education, and inequality of opportunity. An index of inequality of opportunity (including dimensions beyond an …, circumstances explain below 15 % of the observed variance in education, in Chile, they amount to almost half the explained variance …

We investigate the hypothesis of failed integration and low social mobility of immigrants. An intergenerational … Italian Embassy in Germany. Although we confirm substantial inequality of educational achievements between immigrants and … natives, we find that the children of Italian immigrants exhibit high intergenerational mobility and no less opportunities …

show that aggregation bias strongly inflates estimates of the relationship between immigrants' educational attainment and … attainment than parental education. …

This paper studies the occupational selection among generations of immigrants in the United States and links their … time that immigrants spend in the US and over generations. Information friction may be an explanation. …

This paper investigates trends in intergenerational transmission of education among black South Africans - changes in … correlation between parents' and children's education. Using data for 1954-1993 birth cohorts, we find a decrease in … intergenerational transmission of education over the last four decades. The decline is strongest in the lower tail of the educational …