Intergenerational Spillovers of Integration Policies: Evidence from Finland's Integration Plans

Hanna Onerva Pesola () and Matti Sarvimäki ()
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Hanna Onerva Pesola: VATT Institute for Economic Reserach, Helsinki
Matti Sarvimäki: Aalto University

No 15310, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We examine the intergenerational effects of an integration program that increased language training and improved labor market outcomes of adult immigrants in Finland. Exploiting a discontinuity in the phase-in rule of a reform, we find that parents' participation in the program improved their children's grades by 0.5 standard deviations and extended their educational attainment by over a year. Two decades post-arrival, children of the affected immigrants earned 42% more than their counterparts whose parents narrowly missed the policy's implementation.

Keywords: integration policy; intergenerational effects; immigrants (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H53 J13 J61 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 48 pages
Date: 2022-05
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-lab and nep-mig
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Forthcoming - this version: August 2024, forthcoming in: Review of Economics and Statistics

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