Return migration, investment in children, and intergenerational mobility: comparing sons of foreign and native born fathers

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This paper studies parental investment in education and intergenerational earnings mobility for father-son pairs with native and foreign born fathers. We illustrate within a simple model that for immigrants, investment in their children is related to their return migration probability. In our empirical analysis, we include a measure for return probabilities, based on repeated information about migrants' return intentions. Our results suggest that educational investments in the son are positively associated with a higher probability of a permanent migration of the father. We also find that the son's permanent wages are positively associated with the probability of the father's permanent migration.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 3080

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
• Subject: Intergenerational mobility ; return intentions ; educational investment ; earnings ; Migranten ; Kinderbetreuung ; Bildungsinvestition ; Rückwanderung ; Generationenbeziehungen ; Soziale Mobilität ; Deutschland

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Dustmann, Christian
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2007

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/34576
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET