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Measuring Ethnic Identity and Its Impact on Economic Behavior by Amelie F. Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann (September 2007) published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2008, 6 (2-3), 424-433 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. Text: See Discussion Paper No. 3063 
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