Leah Platt Boustan (Princeton University)
3 December 2024 @ 12:00 - 13:15
- Past event
Intergenerational mobility of immigrants in 15 destination countries
Joint with Bocconi University e Osservatorio Migrazioni Centro Luca d’Agliano
Abstract: We estimate the intergenerational mobility of children of immigrants in eleven European and four non-European countries. In all but two destinations, immigrant parents earn less than the local born, but the children of immigrants experience substantial convergence. The remaining gap between children of immigrants and locals is largest in countries like Denmark and France where children of immigrants are raised near the bottom of the income distribution. After controlling for parental income, daughters of immigrants outearn daughters of the local born in most destinations, and the earnings gap diminishes (but remains negative) for sons. Sons of immigrants lag particularly behind in otherwise high-mobility countries like Austria and the Netherlands. All children of immigrants have higher mobility in countries with easier access to citizenship for the second generation, and with positive attitudes toward immigrants.