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

Mathias Fjællegaard Jensen and Alan Manning

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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 socioeconomic characteristics, first-generation locals generally perform as well or slightly better than the children of locals. While children of immigrants are more likely to come from deprived backgrounds, they do not experience substantially different outcomes conditional on parental background.

JEL-codes: I38 J13 J15 J31 J82 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2025-07-03
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Published in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 3, July, 2025, 17(3), pp. 347 - 379. ISSN: 1945-7782

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