Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in the US over Two Centuries

Using millions of father-son pairs spanning more than 100 years of US history, we find that children of immigrants from nearly every sending country have higher rates of upward mobility than children of the US-born. Immigrants advantage is similar historically and today despite dramatic shifts in

本研究采用覆盖美国百余年历史的数百万对父子配对样本展开分析，结果发现，几乎所有移民来源国的移民后代，其社会向上流动率均高于美国本土出生人群的后代。尽管此间发生了剧烈的变动，这种移民优势在历史时期与当代均保持一致。