Measuring ethnic identity and its impact on economic behavior
By: by Amelie Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann
Contributors: Zimmermann, Klaus F.
Series: Discussion paper -- no. 3063; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) -- no. 3063
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Subjects: Ethnicity; Economic indicators
Description: "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"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
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