The More Things Change: Immigrants and the Children of Immigrants in the 1940s, the 1970s, and the 1990s

Abstract

The More Things Change Immigrants and the Children of Immigrants in the 1940s, the 1970s, and the 1990s David Card, John DiNardo, and Eugena Estes 3. See Waldinger and Perlmann (1997) for a review of much of this literature. 4. This argument is advanced in Gans (1992) and Portes and Zhou (1993); also see Wal-5. There are many histories of U.S. immigration; see, for example, Bennett (1963). dinger and Perlmann (1997).

Microeconometric analysis of earnings mobility of immigrants and ethnic minorities: evidence from the UK

“…On the contrary, Borjas (1993) finds a significant positive relationship between the earnings of the first and second generation immigrants in the US. This result is supported by Card et al (2000) who find a high intergenerational income correlation for immigrants. This magnitude of this correlation lies within the range of 0.40 to 0.60.…”

“…Hence, offspring of poor immigrants are expected to be able to encompass their background and to perform better than their fathers in terms of the earnings. This low mobility coefficient of immigrants is not supported by the studies done in the US (Borjas 1993;Card et al 2000) but is consistent with the findings on Canadian immigrants by Aydemir et al (2009).…”

From Parent to Child? Transmission of Educational Attainment Within Immigrant Families: Methodological Considerations

“…The slope coefficient of this regression is 0.35, and after we weight each national origin group to represent their proportion of the U.S. foreign-born population as of 2000 (Model 1b), we obtain a regression coefficient of 0.43. These are coefficients of the same magnitude as the one found by Card et al (2000) and Card (2005), using the same methodology. 5 They are also significantly higher than almost all the estimates of intergenerational transmission within groups in Table 1.…”

“…Instead, researchers relied on aggregate data, using national origin or self-reported ethnicity to link generations by regressing the average years of educational attainment of the children of immigrants on the average years of educational attainment of immigrants of the same origins in previous survey years (Borjas 1993(Borjas , 2006Card 2005;Card et al 2000;Park and Myers 2010;Smith 2003). Even as individual-level data on immigrants and their children became available, the majority of the literature on second-generation attainment has focused on differences in attainment controlling for parental background rather than examining the relationship between parental and child educational attainment itself (for research from the past five years, for instance, see Feliciano 2012;Greenman 2013;Haller et al 2011;Harris et al 2008;Kasinitz et al 2008;Keller and Tillman 2008;Thomas 2009;Waters et al 2010;Xie and Greenman 2011).…”

Immigrants and the Labor Market

“…11 Some intriguing recent work by labor economists has focused on the 'intergenerational assimilation rate',-one minus the coefficient estimated from a regression of children on parents' schooling see (Card et al 2000) or Borjas 1994 for some good examples. These issues are important, but even if the estimated education coefficients were the same for all ethnic immigrant groups, one group could have larger education gains across generations through the constant term.…”