TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Constant, Amelie F.
AU  - Zimmermann, Klaus F.
        TI  - Measuring Ethnic Identity and Its Impact on Economic Behavior
        PY  - 2007/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 3063
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp3063
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - migrant integration
KW  - ethnicity
KW  - migrant assimilation
KW  - ethnic identity
KW  - acculturation
KW  - work
KW  - cultural economics
        ER  -