ETHNIC CAPITAL AND INTERGENERATIONAL MOBILITY

George Borjas

Chapter 6 in Foundational Essays in Immigration Economics, 2021, pp 107-134 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: This paper analyzes the extent to which ethnic skill differentials are transmitted across generations. I assume that ethnicity acts as an externality in the human capital accumulation process. The skills of the next generation depend on parental inputs and on the quality of the ethnic environment in which parents make their investments, or “ethnic capital.” The empirical evidence reveals that the skills of today’s generation depend not only on the skills of their parents, but also on the average skills of the ethnic group in the parent’s generation.

Keywords: Immigration; Economics; Labor Markets; Refugees; Self-selection; Return Migration; Migration; Costs and Benefits from Immigration; Assimilation; Cohort Effects; National Origin; Ethnicity; Neighborhood Effects; Ethnic Capital; Internal Migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F66 J01 J15 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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Journal Article: Ethnic Capital and Intergenerational Mobility (1992)
Working Paper: Ethnic Capital and Intergenerational Mobility (1991)
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