Intergenerational Earnings Mobility Among the Children of Canadian Immigrants

54 Pages Posted: 25 Apr 2006

See all articles by Abdurrahman Aydemir

Abdurrahman Aydemir

Sabanci University

Wen-Hao Chen

OECD; Statistics Canada

Miles Corak

Statistics Canada; University of Ottawa; IZA Institute of Labor Economics

Date Written: April 2006

Abstract

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.

Keywords: immigrants, children, generational mobility

JEL Classification: I30, I32, I38

Suggested Citation

Aydemir, Abdurrahman and Chen, Wen-Hao and Corak, Miles, Intergenerational Earnings Mobility Among the Children of Canadian Immigrants (April 2006). IZA Discussion Paper No. 2085, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=898589 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.898589

Abdurrahman Aydemir

Sabanci University ( email )

Orta Mahalle Üniversite Caddesi 27
Istanbul, Orhanli, 34956 Tuzla 34956
Turkey

Wen-Hao Chen

OECD ( email )

2 rue Andre-Pascal
CEDEX 16
Paris, 75775
France

HOME PAGE: http://www.oecd.org

Statistics Canada ( email )

120 Parkdale Avenue
24th Floor, R.H. Coats Building
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0T6
Canada

Miles Corak (Contact Author)

Statistics Canada ( email )

Family and Labour Studies
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0T6
Canada
613-951-9047 (Phone)
613-951-5403 (Fax)

University of Ottawa

2292 Edwin Crescent
Ottawa, Ontario K2C 1H7
Canada

IZA Institute of Labor Economics

P.O. Box 7240
Bonn, D-53072
Germany

Do you have negative results from your research you’d like to share?

Paper statistics

Downloads
103
Abstract Views
1,659
Rank
469,563
PlumX Metrics