Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in the United States over Two Centuries

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Abramitzky, Ran; Boustan, Leah; Jacome, Elisa; Perez, Santiago
• 署名单位: Stanford University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Princeton University; University of California System; University of California Davis
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-8282
• DOI: 10.1257/aer.20191586
• 发表日期: 2021
• 页码: 580-608
• 关键词: occupational-mobility; economic outcomes; income mobility; assimilation; AGE; CHILDREN; arrival; TRENDS

摘要

Using millions of father-son pairs spanning more than 100 years of US history, we find that children of immigrants from nearly every sending country have higher rates of upward mobility than children of the US-born. Immigrants' advantage is similar historically and today despite dramatic shifts in sending countries and US immigration policy. Immigrants achieve this advantage in part by choosing to settle in locations that offer better prospects for their children.