TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Hammarstedt, Mats
AU  - Palme, Mårten
        TI  - Intergenerational Mobility, Human Capital Transmission and the Earnings of Second-Generation Immigrants in Sweden
        PY  - 2006/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 1943
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp1943
        AB  - We compare the intergenerational earnings mobility of immigrants with natives in Sweden. We find an overall convergence in average earnings between immigrants and natives. This convergence hides a divergence in average earnings between groups of immigrants with different ethnic origins. We find that, on average, immigrants have a lower intergenerational earnings mobility, also (on average) within groups with similar ethnic backgrounds. Immigrants with a relatively low intergenerational earnings mobility increased their average earnings more in the second generation, thereby supporting the idea that low intergenerational earnings mobility can be interpreted as a high degree of intergenerational transmission of human capital.
        KW  - intergenerational income mobility
KW  - intergenerational earnings correlation
KW  - Becker-Tomes model
KW  - ethnic capital
        ER  -