Catherine Haeck (UQAM)
Title:聽Age at Immigration and the Intergenerational Income Mobility of the 1.5 Generation.
Abstract:聽We exploit longitudinal tax files linked to Census data to measure the contribution of age at immigration to the intergenerational income mobility of immigrant children. We first estimate the causal effect of children鈥檚 age at immigration on adulthood income using a siblings fixed effects model of years of exposure to the host country. Up to 10 years old, the relationship between age at immigration and income is weak, but starting at age 11, each additional year is associated with a decrease in adulthood income rank of close to half a percentile rank. We then find that adjusting the 1.5 generation鈥檚 income ranks for age at immigration results in an intergenerational rank-rank coefficient that is lower by 0.018, or 10.2% of the (unadjusted) intergenerational income transmission estimate of the 1.5 generation. Earlier immigration has the potential to improve intergenerational economic mobility.
聽Venue: UQAM Pavillon Pr茅sident-Kennedy, salle PK-5115, Montr茅al
