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| Title: | | Intergenerational mobility, human capital transmission and the earnings of second-generation immigrants in Sweden  |
| Authors: | | Hammarstedt, Mats Palme, Mårten |
| Issue Date: | | 2006 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion Papers 1943 |
| Abstract: | | We compare the intergenerational earnings mobility of immigrants with natives in Sweden. We find an overall convergence in average earnings between immigrants and natives. This convergence hides a divergence in average earnings between groups of immigrants with different ethnic origins. We find that, on average, immigrants have a lower intergenerational earnings mobility, also (on average) within groups with similar ethnic backgrounds. Immigrants with a relatively low intergenerational earnings mobility increased their average earnings more in the second generation, thereby supporting the idea that low intergenerational earnings mobility can be interpreted as a high degree of intergenerational transmission of human capital. |
| Subjects: | | intergenerational income mobility intergenerational earnings correlation Becker-Tomes model ethnic capital |
| JEL: | | J15 J24 J61 J62 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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