Bloomberg: immigrant children are more successful than their parents and peers born in the USA

Children of American immigrants tend to earn more than their parents. They are also more active than their peers born in the USA.

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According to Bloomberg, these findings are published in a document by the National Bureau of Economic Research. In it, the organization examined how immigrants improve their children's life prospects, and also compared the activities of children of recent immigrants and those who came to America about a century ago.

Many immigrants earn less on arrival than American workers, but their children receive on an equal footing with the rest.

“Immigrant children have higher mobility rates than US children,” scientists said.

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“Although some politicians have a short-term view of the assimilation of immigrants, our results show that this view may underestimate the long-term success of immigrants,” they wrote.

“Our results are more consistent with the idea of ​​the American dream, thanks to which even immigrants who come to the United States with limited resources and skills have a real chance to improve the prospects of their children,” the study said.

For analysis, historical data were taken as the basis, some of them are more than 100 years old. The earliest groups consist of 4 millions of first-generation immigrants and their children during the 1880 or 1910 censuses, the first group consisting mainly of countries in Northern and Western Europe, such as Ireland or Germany, and the second from the southern and eastern parts of the continent.

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Researchers then monitored the children of these groups until the 1910 and 1940 censuses, using information about their names, ages, and places of birth. Historical data show that “immigrant families are more likely than US natives to move to areas that offer better prospects for their children,” the researchers write.

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