Background matters, but not whether parents are immigrants: outcomes of children born in Denmark

Mathias Fjaellegaard Jensen and Alan Manning

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Abstract: On average, children born in Denmark with immigrant parents (first-generation locals) have lower earnings, higher unemployment, less education, more welfare transfers, and more criminal convictions than children with local-born parents. This is different from the US where first-generation locals often have better unconditional outcomes. However, like the US, when we condition on parental socio-economic characteristics, first-generation locals generally perform as well or better than the children of locals. There is little distinctive about being a child of immigrants, other than the fact that they are more likely to come from deprived backgrounds.

Keywords: immigration; Denmark; first-generation; deprived background (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J61 J62 N34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 58 pages
Date: 2022-10-17
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-ltv and nep-ure
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Working Paper: Background Matters, but not Whether Parents are Immigrants: Outcomes of Children Born in Denmark (2023)
Working Paper: Background matters, but not whether parents are immigrants: outcomes of children born in Denmark (2022)
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