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Who assimilates? : statistical artefacts and intergenerational mobility in immigrant families

Luthra, Renee; Soehl, Thomas - 2014

This paper assesses estimates of immigrant intergenerationa l mobility that are based on aggregate data sources. We show that aggregation bias strongly inflates estimates of the relationship between immigrants' educational attainment and the educational attainment of their children. Compared to...

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Parental background matters : intergenerational mobility and assimilation of Italian immigrants in Germany

Bönke, Timm; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2014

We investigate the hypothesis of failed integration and low social mobility of immigrants. For this purpose, an intergenerational assimilation model is tested empirically on household survey data and validated against administrative data provided by the Italian Embassy in Germany. In line with...

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Immigration : what about the children and grandchildren?

Sweetman, Arthur; Ours, Jan C. van - 2015

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Are we there yet? : intergenerational mobility and economic assimilation of second-generation immigrants in Estonia

Kivi, Laura Helena; Järve, Janno; Anspal, Sten; … - In: Baltic journal of economics 21 (2021) 2, pp. 157-182

This study investigates the role of intergenerational mobility in explaining the native-immigrant income gap in Estonia. A rich registry dataset on yearly earnings and different background characteristics for the period of 2007-2017 is used. We find that an increase of 1 percentile in parent...

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Leapfrogging the melting pot? : European immigrants' intergenerational mobility across the 20th century

Lowrey, Kendal; Van Hook, Jennifer; Bachmeier, James D.; … - 2021

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Economic Assimilation of the "Third Generation" : An Intergenerational Mobility Perspective on Immigration and Integration

Zorlu, Aslan; van Gent, Wouter - 2021

-generation "migrants." Using rich register data for adult children aged 20 to 30, we provide empirical evidence on the economic …

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Long live the American dream : self-selection and inequality-persistence among American

Ruist, Joakim - 2017

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Erfolg nicht vorgesehen : sozialer Aufstieg in der Einwanderungsgesellschaft - und was ihn so schwer macht

Lang, Christine; Pott, Andreas; Schneider, Jens - 2018 - 2., aktualisierte und gekürzte Auflage

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Economic assimilation of the "third generation": an intergenerational mobility perspective on immigration and integration

Zorlu, Aslan; Gent, Wouter van - 2020

-generation "migrants." Using rich register data for adult children aged 20 to 30, we provide empirical evidence on the economic …

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Unexpected colonial returns : self-selection and economic integration of migrants over multiple generations

Gielen, Anne C.; Webbink, Herman Dinand - 2023

selection of migrants. We exploit this historical episode to study the relationship between the self-selection of migrants and … their long-term economic integration over three generations. 'Beat-the-ban' migrants, those arriving just before the ban …, are negatively selected compared to economic migrants arriving earlier. This difference in selection is reflected in the …

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