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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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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124029
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123614
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Gender, Ethnic Identity and Work
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791986
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005039582
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005498093
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Ethnic Identity and Immigrant Homeownership
Constant, Amelie; Roberts, Rowan; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socio-economic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067560
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Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792497
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011186625