Who assimilates? Statistical artefacts and intergenerational mobility in immigrant families

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This paper assesses estimates of immigrant intergenerationa l mobility that are based on aggregate data sources. We show that aggregation bias strongly inflates estimates of the relationship between immigrants' educational attainment and the educational attainment of their children. Compared to natives, the educational transmission process between parent and child is much weaker in immigrant families. A number of group-level processes, such as societal discrimination, ethnic segregation, or ethnic networks, may render group characteristics more important predictors of second generation educational attainment than parental education.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: ISER Working Paper Series ; No. 2014-28

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Analysis of Education ; Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination ; Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
• Subject: immigration ; intergenerational mobility ; education

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Luthra, Renee Reichl ; Soehl, Thomas
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
• (where): Colchester
• (when): 2014

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/126474
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