Measuring Ethnic Identity and its Impact on Economic Behavior
By Amelie Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann. Social Science Research Network, 2008
227 citations recorded by the source corpus.
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.
Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/5792f9ef9f89d2348ef97349cf7c945ba4885a20
Citations in the corpus
- Immigrants’ Identity, Economic Outcomes and the Transmission of Identity across Generations (2010, unknown): “…economics has addressed issues of identity, both theoretically (Akerlof and Kranton, 2000; Bison et al., 2006; Battu et al., 2007) as well as empirically (Mason, 2004; Pendakur and Pendakur, 2005; Nekby and Rodin, 2007; Manning and Roy, 2010; Constant and Zimmermann, 2008; Battu and Zenou, 2010).”
- Migration and Education (2011, unknown): “, Constant and Zimmermann (2008)).”
- Migration in an Enlarged EU: A Challenging Solution? (2009, unknown): “The issue, as discussed by Constant and Zimmermann (2008), of whether migrants adjust over time to become like natives or whether they stay distinct in terms of their economic characteristics and outcomes are yet to be explored in the postenlargement context.”
- Cultural Diversity and Local Labour Markets (2014, unknown): “To address such issues, one would have to use more sophisticated and elaborate measures of cultural or ethnic identity (for example, the ethnosizer approach developed by CONSTANT and ZIMMERMANN, 2008).”