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| Title: | | Measuring ethnic identity and its impact on economic behavior  |
| Authors: | | Constant, Amelie F. Zimmermann, Klaus F. |
| Issue Date: | | 2007 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion papers // German Institute for Economic Research 721 |
| Abstract: | | The paper advocates for a new measure of the ethnic identity of migrants, models its determinants and explores its explanatory power for various types of their economic performance. The ethnosizer, a measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is constructed from information on the following elements: language, culture, societal interaction, history of migration, and ethnic self-identification. A two-dimensional concept of the ethnosizer classifies migrants into four states: integration, assimilation, separation and marginalization. The ethnosizer largely depends on pre-migration characteristics. Empirical evidence studying economic behavior like work participation, earnings and housing decisions demonstrates the significant relevance of ethnic identity for economic outcomes. |
| Subjects: | | Ethnicity ethnic identity acculturation migrant assimilation migrant integration work cultural economics |
| JEL: | | F22 J15 J16 Z10 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des DIW DIW-Diskussionspapiere
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