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Title: Ethnic Capital and Intergenerational Mobility
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Borjas, George J. |
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Ethnic Capital and Intergenerational Mobility Quarterly Journal of Economics 107,1 (February 1992): 123-150. Also: http://qje.oxfordjournals.org/content/107/1/123.abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Wiley Online Keyword(s): Ethnic Groups/Ethnicity; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Labor Market Outcomes; Mobility; Parental Influences Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The relationship between ethnicity and intergenerational mobility is examined. The main hypothesis is that ethnicity acts as an externality in the production function for human capital. In particular, the quality of the ethnic environment in which a person is raised, called ethnic capital, influences the skills and labor market outcomes of the children. To assess the importance of ethnic capital, data from the General Social Surveys and the NLSY were examined. The empirical evidence shows that ethnic capital plays a major role in intergenerational mobility. The skills and labor market outcomes of today's generation depend on the skills and labor market experiences both of their parents and of the ethnic group in the parents' generation. Second, the introduction of ethnic capital into the analysis shows that there is much more persistence of skills and earnings capacity across generations than is generally believed. [ABI/INFORM] |
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Borjas, George J. "Ethnic Capital and Intergenerational Mobility." Quarterly Journal of Economics 107,1 (February 1992): 123-150.
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