TY  - JOUR
AU  - Borjas,George J.
TI  - Ethnic Capital and Intergenerational Mobility
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 3788
PY  - 1991
Y2  - July 1991
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w3788
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w3788.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
George J. Borjas
Harvard Kennedy School
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617/495-1393
Fax: 617/495-9532
E-Mail: gborjas@harvard.edu
AB  - 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.
ER  -