%0 Report
        %A Constant, Amelie F.
%A Zimmermann, Klaus F.
        %T Measuring Ethnic Identity and Its Impact on Economic Behavior
        %D 2007
        %8 2007 Sep
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 3063
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp3063
        %X 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.
        %K migrant integration
%K ethnicity
%K migrant assimilation
%K ethnic identity
%K acculturation
%K work
%K cultural economics