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Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in 15 Destination Countries

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  • Boustan, Leah Platt

    (Princeton University and NBER)

  • Jensen, Mathias Fjællegaard

    (University of Oxford)

  • Abramitzky, Ran

    (Stanford University)

  • Jácome, Elisa

    (Northwestern University)

  • Manning, Alan

    (London School of Economics)

  • Perez, Santiago

    (University of California, Davis)

  • Watley, Analysia

    (Princeton University)

  • Adermon, Adrian

    (Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU))

  • Arellano-Bover, Jaime

    (Yale University)

  • Aslund, Olof

    (Uppsala University)

  • Connolly, Marie

    (University of Melbourne)

  • Deutscher, Nathan

    (University of Technology, Sydney)

  • Gielen, Anne C.

    (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

  • Giesing, Yvonne

    (Ifo Institute for Economic Research)

  • Govind, Yajna

    (Copenhagen Business School)

  • Halla, Martin

    (Vienna University of Economics and Business)

  • Hangartner, Dominik

    (Stanford University)

  • Jiang, Yuyan

    (University of Cambridge)

  • Karmel, Cecilia

    (Australian National University)

  • Landaud, Fanny

    (CNRS)

  • Macmillan, Lindsey

    (University College London)

  • Martínez, Isabel Z.

    (KOF Swiss Economic Institute)

  • Polo, Alberto

    (New York University)

  • Poutvaara, Panu

    (University of Munich)

  • Rapoport, Hillel

    (Paris School of Economics)

  • Roman, Sara

    (IFAU)

  • Salvanes, Kjell G.

    (Norwegian School of Economics)

  • San, Shmuel

    (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

  • Siegenthaler, Michael

    (ETH Zurich)

  • Sirugue, Louis

    (London School of Economics)

  • Espín, Javier Soria

    (Paris School of Economics)

  • Stuhler, Jan

    (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

  • Violante, Giovanni L.

    (Princeton University)

  • Webbink, Dinand

    (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

  • Weber, Andrea

    (Central European University)

  • Zhang, Jonathan

    (McMaster University)

  • Zhang, Angela

    (University of Sydney)

  • Zohar, Tom

    (CEMFI)

Abstract

We estimate intergenerational mobility of immigrants and their children in fifteen receiving countries. We document large income gaps for first-generation immigrants that diminish in the second generation. Around half of the second-generation gap can be explained by differences in parental income, with the remainder due to differential rates of absolute mobility. The daughters of immigrants enjoy higher absolute mobility than daughters of locals in most destinations, while immigrant sons primarily enjoy this advantage in countries with long histories of immigration. Cross-country differences in absolute mobility are not driven by parental country-of-origin, but instead by destination labor markets and immigration policy.

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  • Boustan, Leah Platt & Jensen, Mathias Fjællegaard & Abramitzky, Ran & Jácome, Elisa & Manning, Alan & Perez, Santiago & Watley, Analysia & Adermon, Adrian & Arellano-Bover, Jaime & Aslund, Olof & Conn, 2025. "Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in 15 Destination Countries," IZA Discussion Papers 17711, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    • Handle: RePEc:iza:izadps:dp17711
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    Keywords

    immigration; intergenerational mobility;

    JEL classification:

    • J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
    • J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion

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