Intergenerational Earnings Mobility Among The Children Of Canadian Immigrants

"We analyze the intergenerational income mobility of Canadians born to immigrants using the 2001 Census. A detailed portrait of the Canadian population is offered as are estimates of the degree of generational mobility among the children of immigrants from 70 countries. The degree of persistence as estimated in regression to the mean models is about the same for immigrants as for the entire population, and there is more generational mobility among immigrants in Canada than in the United States. We also use quantile regressions to distinguish between the role of social capital from other constraints limiting mobility and find that these are present and associated with father's education"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.

In sum, the major conclusions from this table are: (1) that the best estimate of the generational elasticity in father-son weekly earnings is 0.27; (2) that the generational elasticity among the immigrant population in Canada is no different than for the population at large; and (3) that this elasticity is lower, possibly about 50% lower, than in the United States. [...] Accordingly our major conclusions are unchanged: in the case of the father-son relationship none of these results are outside of the range of existing Canadian research; in the case of the father-daughter relationship none of the results are significantly different from zero; and finally, overall none of the results puts the estimate within the range of the U. S. findings.8 We expand upon these re [...] The relationship between father's earnings and son's educational attainment is 7. The relative shares of these countries in the entire population also determines the extent of the change in the estimated elasticity. [...] The results for the 25th, 50th, and 75th quantiles are offered and, for the sake of reference, the least squares results from row 3 of Tables 7 and 8. Results from two models are presented, the first is equation (1) and the second adds an additional co-variate, the average number of years of education among fathers, to this equation. [...] The estimates in the second panel of Table 10 suggest, firstly, that the generational earnings elasticity is strongly positive at the lower end of the income distribution, flat in the middle, and then turns negative at the top.

The objective of this research is to focus on the education outcomes of the children of immigrants. The authors ask three questions. First, what is the degree of intergenerational education mobility, and is it different among immigrants and their children? Second, what factors are most tightly related to the schooling outcomes of second generation Canadians, parental earnings or parental education? And third, has the strength of the tie between the education of immigrant parents and their Canadian-born children changed over time? They answer these questions by employing the regression to the mean model to measure mobility in education across the generations.--Document.

Previous OECD and EU work has shown that even native-born children with immigrant parents face persistent disadvantage in the education system, the school-to-work transition and the labour market. To which degree are these linked with their immigration background, i.e. with the issues faced by ...

Our objective is to obtain an accurate estimate of the degree of intergenerational income mobility in Canada. We use income tax information on about 400,000 father-son pairs, and find intergenerational earnings elasticities to be about 0.2. Earnings mobility tends to be slightly greater than income mobility, but non-parametric techniques uncover significant non-linearities in both of these relationships. Intergenerational earnings mobility is greater at the lower end of the income distribution than at the upper end, and displays an inverted V-shape elsewhere. Intergenerational income mobility follows roughly the same pattern, but is much lower at the very top of the income distribution.

This book contains the proceedings of a seminar that shed light on the issues involved in labour market integration of the children of immigrants.

The economic literature on international migration interests policymakers as well as academics throughout the social sciences. These volumes, the first of a new subseries in the Handbooks in Economics, describe and analyze scholarship created since the inception of serious attention began in the late 1970s. This literature appears in the general economics journals, in various field journals in economics (especially, but not exclusively, those covering labor market and human resource issues), in interdisciplinary immigration journals, and in papers by economists published in journals associated with history, sociology, political science, demography, and linguistics, among others. Covers a range of topics from labor market outcomes and fiscal consequences to the effects of international migration on the level and distribution of income – and everything in between. Encompasses a wide range of topics related to migration and is multidisciplinary in some aspects, which is crucial on the topic of migration Appeals to a large community of scholars interested in this topic and for whom no overviews or summaries exist

This special issue of the Portuguese Studies Review focuses on understanding the Portuguese−Canadian immigrant experience in Canada and Portugal, in terms of identity formation and civic engagement within a broader framework of current debates on multiculturalism, and transnationalism. This special volume resulted from the contributions presented at the Symposium Identity, Civic Engagement and Multiculturalism: Portuguese−Canadian Immigrant Descendants in Canada, which was held at York University, Toronto, on 11 and 12 October 2011. The issue presents studies by Robert A. Kenedy, Fernando Nunes, Ana Paula Beja Horta, Gilberta Pavão Nunes Rocha, Derrick Mendes, Christina Kwiczała, Benjamin Kutsyuruba, Filomena Silvano, Marta Rosales, and Sónia Ferreira.