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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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Ethnicity, Job Search and Labor Market Reintegration of the Unemployed

Constant, Amelie F.; Kahanec, Martin; Rinne, Ulf; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment in Germany. Our data include a large number of migration variables, allowing us to adapt a recently developed concept of ethnic identity: the ethnosizer. To shed further light...

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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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Reservation Wages of First and Second Generation Migrants

Constant, Amelie F.; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper analyzes the reservation wages of first and second generation migrants. Based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that reservation wages increase from first to second generation...

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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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Ethnic Minorities in the European Union: An Overview

Kahanec, Martin; Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

measurement challenge and lacking adequate data, we apply several measures of ethnicity and examine various data sources as well …

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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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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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