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Immigrants, Ethnic Identities and the Nation-State
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In the Western world, multiculturalism has become the way to view and form "nationhood," igniting the interest to understand and model identity. The complexity of identity formation, however, has been firm and ethnic and national identities have been deviating more and more. In this paper, we...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959840
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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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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999162
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566533
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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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Does Bilateral Trust Affect International Movement of Goods and Labor?
Spring, Eva; Grossmann, Volker - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
separately with eight indicators of genetic ("somatic") distance between country-pairs. These indicators work equally well at the …
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Assimilation in Multilingual Cities
Ortega, Javier; Verdugo, Gregory - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Using the Public Use Microdata Files of the 2001 and 2006 Canadian Censuses, we study the determinants of the assimilation of language minorities into the city majority language. We show that official minority members (i.e. francophones in English-speaking cities and anglophones in...
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The Social Assimilation of Immigrants
Palo, Domenico de; Faini, Riccardo; Venturini, Alessandra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Policy makers in migrant-receiving countries must often strike a delicate balance between economic needs, that would dictate a substantial increase in the number of foreign workers, and political and electoral imperatives, that typically result in highly restrictive immigration policies....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703101