@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp17711, author={Boustan, Leah Platt and Jensen, Mathias Fjællegaard and Abramitzky, Ran and Jácome, Elisa and Manning, Alan and Perez, Santiago and Watley, Analysia and Adermon, Adrian and Arellano-Bover, Jaime and Aslund, Olof and Connolly, Marie and Deutscher, Nathan and Gielen, Anne C. and Giesing, Yvonne and Govind, Yajna and Halla, Martin and Hangartner, Dominik and Jiang, Yuyan and Karmel, Cecilia and Landaud, Fanny and Macmillan, Lindsey and Martínez, Isabel Z. and Polo, Alberto and Poutvaara, Panu and Rapoport, Hillel and Roman, Sara and Salvanes, Kjell G. and San, Shmuel and Siegenthaler, Michael and Sirugue, Louis and Espín, Javier Soria and Stuhler, Jan and Violante, Giovanni L. and Webbink, Dinand and Weber, Andrea and Zhang, Jonathan and Zhang, Angela and Zohar, Tom}, title={Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in 15 Destination Countries}, year={2025}, month={Feb}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={17711}, url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp17711}, abstract={We estimate intergenerational mobility of immigrants and their children in fifteen receiving countries. We document large income gaps for first-generation immigrants that diminish in the second generation. Around half of the second-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 sons primarily enjoy this advantage in countries with long histories of immigration. Cross-country differences in absolute mobility are not driven by parental country-of-origin, but instead by destination labor markets and immigration policy.}, keywords={immigration;intergenerational mobility}, }