Background Matters, but not Whether Parents are Immigrants: Outcomes of Children Born in Denmark

Mathias Fjællegaard Jensen and Alan Manning

No 1003, Economics Series Working Papers from University of Oxford, Department of Economics

Abstract: In Europe, the children of migrants often have worse economic outcomes than those with local-born parents. This paper shows that 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. However, when we condition on parental socio-economic characteristics, first-generation locals generally perform as well or slightly better than the children of locals. Our results suggest that there is little distinctive about being a child of immigrants, other than the fact that they are more likely to come from deprived backgrounds.

Date: 2023-03-31
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