Intergenerational mobility of immigrants in Germany. Moving with natives or stuck in their neighborhoods?

Autor/in	Yuksel, Mutlu
Institution	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit
Titel	Intergenerational mobility of immigrants in Germany. Moving with natives or stuck in their neighborhoods? Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Intergenerationsmobilität bei Einwanderern in Deutschland. Mit den Inländern weg ziehen oder in der Nachbarschaft kleben bleiben?
Quelle	Bonn (2009), 53 S.; 382 KB PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	IZA discussion paper. 4677
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Soziale Ungleichheit; Sozioökonomisches Panel; Soziale Mobilität; Generationsunterschied; Beruf; Bildung; Einkommen; Soziale Ungleichheit; Soziale Mobilität; Berufliche Mobilität; Inländer; Sozioökonomisches Panel; Inländer; Einkommen; Sozialkapital; Beruf; Berufliche Mobilität; Arbeitspapier; Migrant
Abstract	"In this paper, I analyze intergenerational mobility of immigrants and natives in Germany. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP), I find intergenerational elasticities that range from 0.19 to 0.26 for natives and from 0.37 to 0.40 for immigrants. These elasticity estimates are lower than typically found for the U.S. and imply higher mobility in Germany than in the U.S. However, as in the U.S., I find greater mobility among German natives than among immigrants. Moreover, I investigate to what extent the lower mobility among immigrants in Germany is due to 'ethnic capital' as suggested by Borjas (1992). I find that the impact of father's earnings on son's earnings remains virtually unchanged when including a measure of ethnic capital, suggesting that the higher father-son correlation found among immigrants is not due to omitting ethnic capital. However, I do find a large independent effect of ethnic capital on sons' earnings (the coefficient is 0.81 as opposed to 0.25 found by Borjas (1992)). These results are consistent with estimates from Microcensus data, where the combined effect of parents' and ethnic capital is close to unity. Thus, contrary to the U.S. results which suggest convergence of immigrants' earnings towards natives' earnings, the German results suggest divergence of immigrant earnings." Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: Längsschnitt; Querschnitt; Sekundäranalyse; empirisch; empirisch-quantitativ. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum ab 1984.B 2004 (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2010/3