Class, not parents’ place of birth, determines the life chances of ‘first-generation locals’ | Torsten Bell
How should we refer to the children of immigrants? The traditional answer is second-generation immigrants", yet first-generation locals" is far more accurate, as a new research paper co-authored by Alan Manning, one of the UK's top economists, points out.
It has more to offer than linguistic improvements. In the US, first-generation locals generally do better than the children of locals. But that's prompted a puzzle, because in European countries that is often not the case, with the children of migrants having below average educational and labour market outcomes. This has prompted worries from the left about discrimination and from the right about a lack of integration.
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