Economics
Kids of U.S. Immigrants Move Up Just Like Those 100 Years Before
New U.S. citizens recite the Oath of Allegiance during naturalization ceremony at the New York Public Library.
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Children of U.S. immigrants tend to earn more than their parents and have higher rates of upward mobility than their American-born peers.
Those are some of the conclusions in a working paper circulated this week by the National Bureau of Economic Research that explores how immigrants often improve their children’s prospects in life -- and shows those born to recent immigrants are moving up just like those who came to American shores a century before.