between the income of parents and that of their children. To understand the implications of polarization on economic mobility … of parental bequests and future wages. The main predictions from the model encompass limited upward mobility for children … lower upward mobility for children from low-income parents, higher intergenerational elasticity for children whose parents …

the United States and Canada are compared. These countries' immigration flows have large differences in source countries …, scale and timing, and Canada has a much larger policy emphasis on skilled workers. Following from these, the educational … attainment of US immigrants is currently lower than that in Canada and the intergenerational transmission of education is …

This paper reviews recent research on the determinants of the labour market outcomes of the children of immigrants in … Canada and in the U.S. New research on labour market outcomes in Canada is also presented. In the aggregate, and with no … controls, the labour market outcomes of the second generation - the children of immigrants - are equal to, or better than …