We estimate intergenerational mobility of immigrants and their children in fifteen receiving countries. We document large income gaps for first-generation immigrants that diminish in the second generation. Around half of the second-generation gap can …
Nearly everyone experiences the death of a parent in adulthood, but little is known about the effects of parental death on adult children’s labor market outcomes and the underlying mechanisms. In this paper, we use Danish administrative data to …
We use rich population-level administrative data from Denmark to develop new facts about the relationship between the timing and spacing of births and labor market outcomes. We show that there is substantial heterogeneity in the age at first birth …
Analyses of job vacancy data are typically constrained by the fact that information on the hired worker(s) is hidden. To overcome this issue, I develop a pseudo-individual match between Danish job vacancy data and register data. With data on the …