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Professor Mathias Jensen
Associate Professor of Economics
University of Oxford

We estimate intergenerational mobility of the children of immigrants across fifteen destination countries. In most destinations, first-generation immigrants have lower incomes than the local born, but gaps narrow in the second generation. Differences in parental income account for about half of the second-generation gap. The remainder reflects mobility differences at a given parental income. Daughters of immigrants are more mobile than daughters of locals almost everywhere, while sons of immigrants advance in the Anglosphere but fall behind in continental Europe. Cross-country variation in mobility is not driven by parental country-of-origin, but is linked to destination educational systems and labor markets.