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Gender, Ethnic Identity and Work
Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
immigrants. Using unique German survey data, the paper identifies marked gender differences in the effects of ethnic …
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Clash of Cultures: Muslims and Christians in the Ethnosizing Process
Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
separation. Christian immigrants with college or higher education in the home country integrate well, but Muslims do not. For … both religious groups, school education in the home country leads to slower assimilation and causes more separation than no … education at home. While school education has no impact on integration efforts for Muslim, it affects similar attempts of …
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Ethnosizing Immigrants
Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
and other Christians assimilate the best. Immigrants with college or higher education in the home country integrate very … well, but do not assimilate. Having some schooling is worse than no education for integration or assimilation. The …
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Work and Money: Payoffs by Ethnic Identity and Gender
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Upon arrival in the host country, immigrants undergo a fundamental identity crisis. Their ethnic identity being questioned, they can be classified into four states - assimilation, integration, separation and marginalization. This is suggested by the ethnosizer, a newly established measure to...
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Measuring Ethnic Identity and Its Impact on Economic Behaviour
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
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...
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