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 …

evidence that the OLS estimates of the effect of ethnic capital on intergenerational transmission of education are biased …

This paper examines the role of education as causal channel through which growing up poor affects the economic outcomes …, our results reveal a significant role of education in this intergenerational transmission. These results are particularly …

Using an immigrant assimilation framework, this paper develops a model of the occupational mobility of immigrants and … tests the hypotheses using data on adult males from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia. The theoretical …

This paper assesses how new immigrants to Spain fare in the country's labor market, evaluating the conditions under … Labor Force Survey data from 2000 through 2011, we find that immigrants who arrived before the 2008 recession had little … skyrocketed. Immigrants' individual characteristics had a limited effect on their employment trajectories. Although many …