Background Matters, but Not Whether Parents Are Immigrants: Outcomes of Children Born in Denmark

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Jensen, Mathias Fjaellegaard; Manning, Alan
• 署名单位: University of Oxford; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.20230389
• 发表日期: 2025
• 页码: 347-379
• 关键词: intergenerational mobility; 2nd-generation immigrants; earnings; work; unemployment; transmission; culture

摘要

In Europe, the children of migrants often have worse economic outcomes than those with local-born parents. This paper shows that children born in Denmark with immigrant parents (first-generation locals) have lower earnings, higher unemployment, less education, more welfare transfers, and more criminal convictions than children with local-born parents. However, when we condition on parental socioeconomic characteristics, first-generation locals generally perform as well or slightly better than the children of locals. While children of immigrants are more likely to come from deprived backgrounds, they do not experience substantially different outcomes conditional on parental background. (JEL I38, J13, J15, J31, J82)