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. …

, immigrants experience higher persistence than natives in weight and BMI. We also find that mothers' education decreases children …It is well known that a substantial part of income and education is passed on from parents to children, generating ….S., including weight, height, the body mass index (BMI), asthma and depression for both natives and immigrants. We show that both …

This paper analyses the intergenerational income mobility for natives and immigrants in Switzerland. An IV approach … subgroups of the Swiss population shows strong differences between Swiss and immigrants. Compared to natives, immigrants are … for natives is found to be similar for all income quantiles. Among immigrants, mobility is higher at the lower as well as …

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 …