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The Effect of Ethnic Identity on the Employment of Immigrants

Drydakis, Nick - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This study evaluates the effect of ethnic identity on the employment level of immigrants in Greece. Treating ethnic identity as a composite of key cultural elements the estimations suggest that employment is positively associated with assimilation and integration and negatively associated with...

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Ethnic Identity and Work

Constant, Amelie F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

identity is a major issue; even more challenging is to measure its impact on economic outcomes such as the probability to work …

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Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of immigrants’ ethnic persistence and assimilation....

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Acculturation Identity and Labor Market Outcomes

Nekby, Lena; Rödin, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

-dimensional acculturation framework based on both strength of identity to the (ethnic) minority and to the (Swedish) majority culture. Results …

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Ethnosizing Immigrants: A Theoretical Framework

Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler (Cohen), Odelia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

, gender, education, religion, etc.) on their ethnic identity using the ethnosizer. This note presents a basic theoretical …

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The Effect of Enclave Residence on the Labour Force Activities of Immigrants in Canada

Tu, Jiong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

It has been well documented that immigrants' clustering of residence in large cities has been associated with the creation of a number of ethnic enclaves. The intensive exposure to own-ethnic population could affect immigrant labour market involvement positively or negatively. However, no extant...

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Ethnicity and the Immigration of Highly Skilled Workers to the United States

Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic … components of ethnicity – country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion – among persons admitted to legal permanent …. India dominates EB-2 and European countries EB-1. (2) The ethnicity portfolio contains more languages than religions. (3 …

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Economic and Cultural Gaps among Foreign-born Minorities in Spain

de la Rica, Sara; Ortega, Francesc - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

, Eastern Europeans, Moroccans and individuals from Other Muslim countries. We focus on several outcomes: the gender education …

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International Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Inequality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

the role of ethnicity and ethnic identity for relative economic performance. …

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Immigrant Wage and Employment Assimilation: A Comparison of Methods

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hanel, Barbara; McVicar, Duncan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We compare alternative methods for estimating immigrant wage and employment assimilation using unique panel data over 2001–2009 for a large, nationally-representative sample of immigrants. Previous assimilation estimates have been mainly based on cross-sectional data and have therefore...

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