INTERGENERATIONAL EARNINGS MOBILITY AMONG THE CHILDREN OF CANADIAN IMMIGRANTS

• 成果类型: Article; Proceedings Paper
• 署名作者: Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Chen, Wen-Hao; Corak, Miles
• 署名单位: Sabanci University; University of Ottawa; Statistics Canada
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/rest.91.2.377
• 发表日期: 2009-05
• 页码: 377-397
• 关键词: 2nd-generation immigrants; educational-attainment; income mobility; unemployment; biases; parent

摘要

The intergenerational earnings mobility of Canadians born to immigrants is examined using the 2001 Census. A detailed portrait of the Canadian population is offered as are estimates of the degree of generational mobility among the children of immigrants from seventy countries. The degree of intergenerational persistence is about the same for immigrants as for the entire population, and there is more generational mobility among immigrants in Canada than in the United States. We also use quantile regressions to distinguish between the role of social capital from other constraints limiting mobility and find that these are present.