@techreport{Epstein2001Multi,
abstract = {The literature, starting with Chiswick (1977, 1978) to Gang and Zimmermann (2000), more
recently, focuses on the economic achievements and performance of first- and secondgeneration
migrants. This paper presents a three-generation migrant analysis, comparing
relative economic performance of various migrant generations to one another and to the native
population. We developed a theoretical model, which was then explored empirically using data
from the 1995 Israeli Census. In both the theoretical and empirical analyses, the curve
describing intergenerational immigrant earnings mobility is inversely U-shaped. The second
generation earns relatively more than the first and third generations, while the third generation
earns less than the second, but more than the first. Thus, assimilation of the third generation into
the local population is far from clear.},
author = {Gil S. Epstein and Tikva Lecker},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {F22; 330; Intergenerational earnings mobility; migration; labor market performance; Migranten; Einkommen; Intertemporale Einkommensverteilung; Theorie; Israel},
language = {eng},
number = {275},
title = {Multi-Generation Model of Immigrant Earnings: Theory and Application},
type = {IZA Discussion paper series},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/21126},
year = {2001}
}
