Trust Issues: Evidence from Second Generation Immigrants

Trust Issues: Evidence from Second Generation Immigrants

This paper estimates the intergenerational transmission of trust by studying second generation immigrants in 29 European countries with ancestry in 87 nations. There is significant transmission of trust on the mother’s side. The transmission is stronger in Northern Europe. Ancestry from more developed countries suggests a stronger transmission of trust, but the heterogeneity in ancestry dissip...

Evidence from Switzerland on Natives and Second Generation Immigrants

The Educational Attainment of Second Generation Immigrants in Canada: Evidence from SLID

This paper examines differences in educational attainment between natives and children of immigrants to Canada. We introduce two definitions of secondgeneration immigrants: The first considers all children with at least one immigrant parent to be second-generation immigrants, while the second definition requires that both parents were foreign-born. In the data, regardless of which definition we...

Heterogeneity in the Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment: Evidence from Switzerland on Natives and Second Generation Immigrants

Heterogeneity in the Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment: Evidence from Switzerland on Natives and Second Generation Immigrants This study applies rich data from the 2000 Swiss census to investigate the patterns of intergenerational education transmission for natives and second generation immigrants. The level of secondary schooling attained by youth aged 17 is related to t...

Parental Ethnic Identity and Educational Attainment of Second-Generation Immigrants

Parental Ethnic Identity and Educational Attainment of Second-Generation Immigrants A lack of cultural integration is often blamed for hindering immigrant families’ economic progression. This paper is a first attempt to explore whether immigrant parents’ ethnic identity affects the next generation’s human capital accumulation in the host country. Empirical results based on data from the German ...