Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/314608 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 17711
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
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.
Subjects: 
immigration
intergenerational mobility
JEL: 
J15
J61
J62
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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