Human capital transmission and the earnings of second-generation immigrants in Sweden

Table 9 Determinants of average relative earnings of different groups of second-generation immigrants (t-values within parentheses)

Variable	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
Intercept	0.074	-0.110	-1.059	-0.192
	(1.88)	(-1.37)	(-3.39)	(-0.66)
Log per capita GDP	-	-	0.239	0.002
			(3.13)	(0.29)
Intergenerational	-	1.373	-	1.356
correlation		(2.56)		(2.63)
First generation	1.425	1.190	-	1.340
Income	(4.47)	(4.05)		(3.69)
R²	52.6	65.7	45.0	81.6
N	20	20	14	14

Note: Specifications (3) and (4) omit former Yugoslavia, the Baltic States, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland since per capita GDP was not available for these countries. The GDP variable gives the (log) per capita GDP in the source country in 1970.