Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in 15 Destination Countries

Leah Platt Boustan (), Mathias Fjællegaard Jensen (), Ran Abramitzky (), Elisa Jácome, Alan Manning (), Santiago Perez, Analysia Watley, Adrian Adermon, Jaime Arellano-Bover, Olof Aslund (), Marie Connolly, Nathan Deutscher, Anne C. Gielen (), Yvonne Giesing, Yajna Govind (), Martin Halla, Dominik Hangartner, Yuyan Jiang, Cecilia Karmel, Fanny Landaud (), Lindsey Macmillan (), Isabel Z. Martínez, Alberto Polo (), Panu Poutvaara (), Hillel Rapoport (), Sara Roman, Kjell G. Salvanes (), Shmuel San (), Michael Siegenthaler, Louis Sirugue, Javier Soria Espín, Jan Stuhler (), Giovanni L. Violante (), Dinand Webbink (), Andrea Weber, Jonathan Zhang (), Angela Zhang and Tom Zohar
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Leah Platt Boustan: Princeton University and NBER
Mathias Fjællegaard Jensen: University of Oxford
Ran Abramitzky: Stanford University
Elisa Jácome: Northwestern University
Alan Manning: London School of Economics
Analysia Watley: Princeton University
Olof Aslund: Uppsala University
Nathan Deutscher: University of Technology, Sydney
Anne C. Gielen: Erasmus University Rotterdam
Yajna Govind: Copenhagen Business School
Dominik Hangartner: Stanford University
Yuyan Jiang: University of Cambridge
Cecilia Karmel: Australian National University
Fanny Landaud: CNRS
Lindsey Macmillan: University College London
Isabel Z. Martínez: KOF Swiss Economic Institute
Alberto Polo: New York University
Panu Poutvaara: University of Munich
Sara Roman: IFAU
Kjell G. Salvanes: Norwegian School of Economics
Shmuel San: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Louis Sirugue: London School of Economics
Javier Soria Espín: Paris School of Economics
Jan Stuhler: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Giovanni L. Violante: Princeton University
Dinand Webbink: Erasmus University Rotterdam
Jonathan Zhang: McMaster University
Angela Zhang: University of Sydney

No 17711, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We estimate intergenerational mobility of immigrants and their children in fifteen receiving countries. We document large income gaps for first-generation immigrants that diminish in the second generation. Around half of the second-generation gap can be explained by differences in parental income, with the remainder due to differential rates of absolute mobility. The daughters of immigrants enjoy higher absolute mobility than daughters of locals in most destinations, while immigrant sons primarily enjoy this advantage in countries with long histories of immigration. Cross-country differences in absolute mobility are not driven by parental country-of-origin, but instead by destination labor markets and immigration policy.

Keywords: immigration; intergenerational mobility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J61 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 294 pages
Date: 2025-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dem, nep-int, nep-lab, nep-ltv and nep-mig
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