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Attitudes towards immigrants, other integration barriers, and their veracity

Constant, Amelie F.; Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008

The paper studies opinions and attitudes towards immigrants and minorities and their interactions with other barriers to minorities' economic integration. Specifically, we consider the minority experts' own perceptions about these issues, the veracities and repercussions of unfavorable attitudes...

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Work and money: payoffs by ethnic identity and gender

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

Upon arrival in the host country, immigrants undergo a fundamental identity crisis. Their ethnic identity being … suggested by the ethnosizer, a newly established measure to parameterize a person's ethnic identity, using individual … individuals end up varies among immigrants even from the same country. Moreover, the quest for ethnic identity affects women and …

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An expert stakeholder's view on European integration challenges

Constant, Amelie F.; Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011

The standard approach of analysing gaps in social and labor market outcomes of different ethnic groups relies on analysis of statistical data about the affected groups. In this paper we go beyond this approach by measuring the views of expert stakeholders involved in minority integration. This...

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Migration, ethnicity and economic integration

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

This chapter deals with the economic and ethnic diversity caused by international labor migration, and their economic integration possibilities. It brings together three strands of literature dealing with the neoclassical economic assimilation, ethnic identities and attitudes towards immigrants...

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Ethnicity, job search and labor market reintegration of the unemployed

Constant, Amelie F.; Kahanec, Martin; Rinne, Ulf; … - 2009

ethnic identity: the ethnosizer. To shed further light on the native-migrant differences in economic outcomes, we investigate …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271156

Naturalization proclivities, ethnicity and integration

Constant, Amelie F.; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, … - 2007

This paper studies the determinants of naturalization among Turkish and ex-Yugoslav immigrants in Germany differentiating between actual and planned citizenship. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel, we measure the impact that integration and ethnicity indicators exert on the probability to...

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Businesswomen in Germany and their performance by ethnicity: it pays to be self-employed

Constant, Amelie F. - 2008

In this paper I assert that the entrepreneurial spirit can also exist in salaried jobs. I study the determinants of wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany - self-employed and salaried businesswomen - and investigate whether ethnicity is important in...

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Ethnosizing Immigrants

Constant, Amelie F.; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, … - 2006

The paper provides a new measure of the ethnic identity of immigrants and explores its evolution in the host country …. The ethnosizer, a measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is constructed from information on the following …. We find that ethnic identity persists stronger for females, Muslims, those with schooling in the home country, and older …

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The Russian-Ukrainian Earnings Divide

Constant, Amelie F.; Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2006

Ethnic differences are often considered to be powerful sources of diverse economic behavior. In this paper, we investigate whether and how ethnicity affects Ukrainian labor market outcomes. Using micro data from the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) and Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition...

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Clash of Cultures: Muslims and Christians in the Ethnosizing Process

Constant, Amelie F.; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, … - 2006

The paper explores the evolution of ethnic identities of two important and distinct immigrant religious groups. Using data from Germany, a large European country with many immigrants, we study the adaptation processes of Muslims and Christians. Individual data on language, culture, societal...

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