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Ethnic Capital and Intergenerational Mobility

Borjas, G. J.·1992·The Quarterly Journal of Economics
DOI 10.2307/2118325
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This paper analyzes the extent to which ethnic skill differentials are transmitted across generations. I assume that ethnicity acts as an externality in the human capital accumulation process. The skills of the next generation depend on parental inputs and on the quality of the ethnic environment in which parents make their investments, or “ethnic capital.” The empirical evidence reveals that the skills of today's generation depend not only on the skills of their parents, but also on the average skills of the ethnic group in the parent's generation.

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  • A parsimonious theory-that children's outcomes mimic those of the parents in their social communities, as in Borjas (1992)-explains the divergent trends in economic mobility by race and class in the United States in recent decades.

    “Combining these results, we conclude that a parsimonious theory-that children's outcomes mimic those of the parents in their social communities, as in Borjas (1992)-explains the divergent trends in eco-nomic mobility by race and class in the United States in recent decades.”

    From Changing Opportunity: Sociological Mechanisms Underlying Growing Class Gaps and Shrinking Race Gaps in Economic Mobility (2024) · cites this paper as Borjas (1992)

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Authors
Borjas, G. J.
Venue
The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published
1992-02-01
Volume
107
Issue
1
Pages
123-150
ISSN
  • 0033-5533
  • 1531-4650
DOI
10.2307/2118325
Cited by
579
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Language
en

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