We estimate intergenerational mobility of immigrants and their children in fifteen receiving countries. We document …-generation gap can be explained by differences in parental income, with the remainder due to differential rates of absolute mobility …. The daughters of immigrants enjoy higher absolute mobility than daughters of locals in most destinations, while immigrant …

We assess the hypothesis that declining intergenerational economic mobility in Norway is attributable to a rising …

Among economists, empirical analysis of social mobility and the role of parental background is largely carried out in … two separate strands of research. The intergenerational mobility literature estimates parent-child persistence in a … framework, and has only more recently started generating empirical evidence. Intergenerational mobility regressions are …