long run labour market success of children is related to that of their parents is examined. The rich countries differ … significantly in the extent to which parental economic status is related to the labour market success of children in adulthood. The …

of Canadians is offered, as are estimates of the degree of generational mobility among the children of immigrants …. Persistence in the years of schooling across the generations is rather weak between immigrants and their Canadian born children … second generation children, and if anything negatively correlated. Finally we find that the intergenerational transmission of …

determine the life chances of children is complicated; the result of a particular history, societal values, and the nature of …