Abstract
This paper analyzes the extent to which 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 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 group in the parent's generation.
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Ethnic groupCapital (architecture)Demographic economicsSociologyEconomicsGeographyAnthropologyArchaeology
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George J. Borjas
(1991).
Ethnic Capital and Intergenerational Mobility.
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https://doi.org/10.3386/w3788
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- 10.3386/w3788