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Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in 15 Destination Countries

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  • Leah Boustan
  • Mathias Fjællegaard Jensen
  • Ran Abramitzky
  • Elisa Jácome
  • Alan Manning
  • Santiago Pérez
  • Analysia Watley
  • Adrian Adermon
  • Jaime Arellano-Bover
  • Olof Åslund
  • Marie Connolly
  • Nathan Deutscher
  • Anne C. Gielen
  • Yvonne Giesing
  • Yajna Govind
  • Martin Halla
  • Dominik Hangartner
  • Yuyan Jiang
  • Cecilia Karmel
  • Fanny Landaud
  • Lindsey Macmillan
  • Isabel Z. Martínez
  • Alberto Polo
  • Panu Poutvaara
  • Hillel Rapoport
  • Sara Roman
  • Kjell G. Salvanes
  • Shmuel San
  • Michael Siegenthaler
  • Louis Sirugue
  • Javier Soria Espín
  • Jan Stuhler
  • Giovanni L. Violante
  • Dinand Webbink
  • Andrea Weber
  • Jonathan Zhang
  • Angela Zheng
  • Tom Zohar

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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  • Leah Boustan & Mathias Fjællegaard Jensen & Ran Abramitzky & Elisa Jácome & Alan Manning & Santiago Pérez & Analysia Watley & Adrian Adermon & Jaime Arellano-Bover & Olof Åslund & Marie Connolly & Nat, 2025. "Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in 15 Destination Countries," NBER Working Papers 33558, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    • Handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:33558
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    JEL classification:

    • 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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