Children of immigrants have higher rates of upward mobility than US-born
It&#x27;s particularly interesting to look at the mobility statistics of asian americans (many of whom are also immigrants) as a category: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.equality-of-opportunity.org&#x2F;assets&#x2F;documents&#x2F;race_paper.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.equality-of-opportunity.org&#x2F;assets&#x2F;documents&#x2F;race...</a>.<p>If you look at table 1 on page 56, you can see that for white americans, the probability of a child ending up in the top quantile of income where a parent is in the bottom quantile of income is 11% (about half the probability one would except of there was zero correlation between child and parent incomes). For Asian Americans its almost 27%. A white child born in the bottom quantile is about 2.5 times more likely to <i>stay</i> in the bottom quantile (28%) than to rise to the top quantile (12%). An asian child born in the bottom quantile is about 1.5 times more likely to <i>rise</i> to the top quantile (27%) than to stay in the bottom quantile (12%).