%0 Report %A Zimmermann, Laura V %A Gataullina, Liliya %A Constant, Amelie F. %A Zimmermann, Klaus F. %T Human Capital and Ethnic Self-Identification of Migrants %D 2006 %8 2006 Sep %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) %C Bonn %7 IZA Discussion Paper %N 2300 %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp2300 %X 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. %K human capital %K ethnic self-identification %K gender %K first-generation migrants %K ethnicity