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Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

and host country ethnicity to explain that deficit. It introduces a two-dimensional understanding of ethnic identity, as a …

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Work and Money: Payoffs by Ethnic Identity and Gender

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Upon arrival in the host country, immigrants undergo a fundamental identity crisis. Their ethnic identity being questioned, they can be classified into four states - assimilation, integration, separation and marginalization. This is suggested by the ethnosizer, a newly established measure to...

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Measuring Ethnic Identity and Its Impact on Economic Behaviour

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

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...

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Clash of Cultures: Muslims and Christians in the Ethnosizing Process

Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The paper explores the evolution of ethnic identities of two important and distinct immigrant religious groups. Using data from Germany, a large European country with many immigrants, we study the adaptation processes of Muslims and Christians. Individual data on language, culture, societal...

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Ethnosizing Immigrants

Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

ethnicity of individuals, measured by country of origin, remains relevant. …

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Ethnic Self-Identification of First-Generation Immigrants

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F; Zimmermann, Laura - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper uses the concept of ethnic self-identification of immigrants in a two-dimensional framework. It acknowledges the fact that attachments to the home and the host country are not necessarily mutually exclusive. There are three possible paths of adjustment from separation at entry, namely...

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Human Capital and Ethnic Self-Identification of Migrants

Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The paper investigates the role of human capital for migrants' ethnic ties towards their home and host countries. Pre-migration characteristics dominate ethnic self-identification. Human capital acquired in the host country does not affect the attachment to the receiving country.

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Culture, Ethnicity and Diversity

Desmet, Klaus; Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio; Wacziarg, Romain - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We investigate the empirical relationship between ethnicity and culture, defined as a vector of traits reflecting norms … overlap between culture and ethnicity, finding that the level of economic development is positively associated with cultural … diversity and negatively associated with the overlap between culture and ethnicity. Finally, although only a small portion of a …

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Immigration and Swiss House Prices

Degen, Kathrin; Fischer, Andreas M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This study examines the behavior of Swiss house prices to immigration flows for 85 districts from 2001 to 2006. The … results show that the nexus between immigration and house prices holds even in an environment of low house price inflation and … modest immigration flows. An immigration inflow equal to 1% of an area’s population is coincident with an increase in prices …

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Reservation Wages of First and Second Generation Migrants

Constant, Amelie; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper analyzes the reservation wages of first and second generation migrants. Based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that reservation wages increase from first to second generation...

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