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The Economics and Persistence of Migrant Ethnicity
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A Study Group Funded by the Volkswagen Foundation |
The Economics and Persistence of Migrant Ethnicity project was launched in April 2005 as part of the Study Group on Migration and Integration financed by the Volkswagen Stiftung, and will last for three years.
The project provides a multidisciplinary understanding of the costs and benefits of ethnicity and migration. The need for additional knowledge on these issues has further increased as a result of the effects of globalization, the upcoming demographic burden, and the sluggish economic development in many parts of the world. Migration seems to be at the same time both a threat and a blessing for societies. A complication of migration is ethnicity; the affiliated ethnic diversity is understood as burden and potential.
The project deals with assimilation and persistence of ethnicities, and the involved benefits and costs for societies. An objective of the project is to identify the forces, which determine immigrant ascension to major indicators of success like citizenship, interethnic marriages and self-employment, as well as to define and measure immigrant ethnicity.
Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA and University of Bonn) and Dr. Amelie Constant (IZA), in collaboration with Program Director on Migration Prof. Dr. Barry R. Chiswick (UIC), and Prof. Dr. Don DeVoretz (Simon Fraser University). |
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Successful Workshop on Migration and Integration |
On October 6-7, 2005 the Volkswagen Foundation (VolkswagenStiftung) held its first workshop on Migration and Integration, organized and hosted by the Social Science Research Center (WZB) and the Programme on Intercultural Conflicts and Societal Integration (AKI) in Berlin. The workshop raised the questions of institutionalized inter-disciplinary field of migration studies, and the applicability of scientific results to the reality of culturally and ethnically diverse societies. It offered a platform for discussion and further cooperation between the eight study groups sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation to research the issues of migration, the Foundation's board and committee members, as well as practitioners.
IZA, as one of the funded study groups, was represented by Klaus F. Zimmermann, Amelie Constant and Holger Stichnoth. The team presented its project on the "Economics and Persistence of Migrant Ethnicity." Their presentation gave an overview of the project's three sub-themes: interethnic marriages, ethnic entrepreneurship, and citizenship. They also talked about the measurement of ethnic capital. The other study groups presented their projects on: "Cultural Capital in Migration," "Diversity, Integration, and the Economy," "Home Start before School Start; Individual Integration Efforts and Societal Preconditions for the Integration of Immigrant Youth in Germany and Switzerland," "The Integration of the Second-Generation of Migrants in Several European Countries," "Cultural Diversity in the Health Care System," and "Migrants in the Organizations of Law and Order."
The workshop ended with fruitful and productive discussions between the Volkswagen Foundation members, the funded research groups and practitioners from organizations working on issues of integration and diversity. These discussions indicated the importance of further cooperation between scientists and practitioners and also among the study groups.
For more information on all individual study groups, please, refer to: http://www.migration-integration.de |
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Research Areas |
Interethnic Marriages (contact Prof. Dr. Barry R. Chiswick)
The aim of this area is to study the forces behind interethnic marriages, and the use of marriage as preserving of one?s ethnicity. Using Becker?s model to rationalize data on interethnic marriage behavior, the objective is to measure empirically the proclivity to marry within or outside the ethnic group controlling for social, ethnic, and structural factors.
Citizenship (contact Prof. Dr. Don DeVoretz)
The aim of this area is to study the motivation of immigrants to ascend to citizenship. The objective is to model the economic and demographic forces that determine why some immigrants remain non-citizens even after a long stay in the host country and why others actively seek to naturalize and rapidly ascend to citizenship.
Ethnic Entrepreneurship (contact Dr. Amelie Constant)
The aim of this area is to examine the motivation and proclivity of immigrants to choose self-employment. The objective is to measure econometrically the ethnic differences that propel and guide some immigrants to become self-employed, above and beyond individual, family, and demographic characteristics.
Ethnosizer (contact Prof. Dr. Klaus F. Zimmermann)
The aim of this group is to define the elusive concept of immigrant ethnicity and measure ethnic capital in a quantitative way. |
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Publications |
Selected IZA Discussion Papers on Migration and Ethnicity since April 2005
Alan Barrett, Adele Bergin and David Duffy, The Labour Market Characteristics and Labour Market Impacts of Immigrants in Ireland, IZA DP No. 1553, April 2005.
Barry R. Chiswick, The Occupational Attainment of American Jewry: 1990 to 2000, IZA DP No. 1736, September 2005.
Barry R. Chiswick and Michael Wenz, The Linguistic and Economic Adjustment of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in the United States, 1980 to 2000, IZA DP No. 1726, August 2005.
Barry R. Chiswick, High Skilled Immigration in the International Arena, IZA DP No, 1782, September 2005
Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller Computer Skills, Destination Language Proficiency and the Earnings of Natives and Immigrants, IZA DP No. 1755, September 2005
Barry R. Chiswick, Yew Liang Lee and Paul W. Miller, Immigrant Earnings: A Longitudinal Analysis, IZA DP No. 1750, September 2005 (forthcoming in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2005)
Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller, Why Is the Payoff to Schooling Smaller for Immigrants?, IZA DP No.1731, September 2005.
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Sara de la Rica, Immigrants' Responsiveness to Labor Market Conditions and Its Implications on Regional Disparities: Evidence from Spain, IZA DP No. 1557, April 2005.
Amelie Constant and Klaus F. Zimmermann, Immigrant Performance and Selective Immigration Policy: A European Perspective, IZA DP No. 1715, August 2005 (forthcoming in: National Institute Economic Review, 2005)
Brian Duncan and Stephen Trejo, Ethnic Identification, Intermarriage, and Unmeasured Progress by Mexican Americans, IZA DP No. 1629, June 2005.
Heather Antecol and Kelly Bedard, Unhealthy Assimilation: Why Do Immigrants Converge to American Health Status Levels? IZA DP No. 1654, July 2005.
Ken Clark and Stephen Drinkwater, Dynamics and Diversity: Ethnic Employment Differences in England and Wales, 1991-2001, IZA DP No. 1698, July 2005.
Krćn Blume, Björn Gustafsson, Peder J. Pedersen and Mette Verner, At the Lower End of the Table: Determinants of Poverty among Immigrants to Denmark and Sweden, IZA DP No. 1551, April 2005.
Nil Demet Güngör and Aysit Tansel, Return Intentions of University-Educated Turkish Expatriates, IZA DP No.1604, May 2005.
Nil Demet Güngör and Aysit Tansel. The Determinants of Return Intentions of Turkish Students and Professionals Residing Abroad: An Empirical Investigation, IZA DP No. 1598, May 2005.
Subhayu Badyopadhyay and Howard J. Wall, Immigration and Outsourcing: A General Equilibrium Analysis, IZA DP No. 1694, July 2005.
Subhayu Badyopadhyay and Ryo Takashima, Trade Polica and Illegal Immigration, IZA DP No. 1568, April 2005
Sumon Bhaumik, Ira N. Gang and Myeong-Su Yun, Ethnic Conflict and Economic Disparity: Serbians and Albanians in Kosovo, IZA DP No. 1772, September 2005
Xavier Chojnicki, Frédéric Docquier and Lionel Ragot, Should the U.S. Have Locked the Heaven's Door? Reassessing the Benefits of the Postwar Immigration, IZA DP No. 1676, July 2005.
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Selected publications related to the Migration Area and the Migrant Ethnicity Project (since April 2005)
Barry R. Chiswick, Yew Liang Lee and Paul W. Miller, "Immigrant Earnings: A Longitudinal Analysis," IZA DP No. 1750, September 2005 (forthcoming in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2005)
Constant, Amelie and Klaus F., Zimmermann, "Immigrant Performance and Selective Immigration Policy: A European Perspective," National Institute Economic Review, 2005, 194 (4), 4-15
Constant, Amelie and Klaus F., Zimmermann, "The Making of Entrepreneurs in Germany: Are Native Men and Immigrants Alike?" Small Business Economics, 2005, 24 (4), 1-22
Constant, Amelie, Yochanan Shachmurove, and Klaus F. Zimmermann, "What Makes an Entrepreneur and Does It Pay? Native Men, Turks, and Other Migrants in Germany," International Migration, 2005, forthcoming
DeVoretz, Don J., and Sergiy Pivnenko, "The Economic Causes and Consequences of Canadian Citizenship," The Journal of Immigration and Integration, forthcoming
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