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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 then try to get at the causal effect of the age at immigration by estimating a model in which child rank is explained … 10, the relation between age at immigration and income is flat, but starting at age 11, each year is associated with 3 …
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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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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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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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Intergenerational income mobility is lower in the United States than in Canada, but varies significantly within each country. Our sub-national analysis finds that the national border only partially distinguishes the close to one thousand regions we analyze within these two countries. The...
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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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