Intergenerational Education Mobility Among The Children Of Canadian Immigrants

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.

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 ...

- Foreword and Acknowledgements - Executive summary - Intergenerational mobility of natives with immigrant parents - An overview - Intergenerational mobility among young natives with immigrant parents - A review of the literature - The intergenerational educational mobility of nativeswith immigrant parents - Intergenerational mobility in the labour market - How do nativeswith immigrant parents fare?

This publication includes cross-country comparative work and provides new insights on the complex issue of the intergenerational transmission of disadvantage for native-born children of immigrants.

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