Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/295571 
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Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
CReAM Discussion Paper Series No. 14/17
Publisher: 
Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London, London
Abstract: 
This paper aims to explain the slow economic convergence between groups of different ancestries in the US, i.e. why these groups experience even less intergenerational mobility than individuals in the same country. It shows how excessively persistent inequality may be a long-lasting outcome of ancestors' self-selection into migration, and need not involve e.g. ethnicity-based behaviors. A testable implication is that the correlation between home country characteristics that influence self- election, and migrants' and their descendants' outcomes should increase generation by generation. Verifying this, their ancestors' migration distance has risen to explain around half the inequality between fourth-generation immigrant groups today.
Subjects: 
migration
selection
intergenerational mobility
ancestry
immigrant integration
JEL: 
F22
I24
J61
J62
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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