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

separate literature has also examined the cultural and ethnic identity of immigrants and how these affect their economic … performance and societal integration. However, an unexplored channel connects ethnic clustering with ethnic identity formation … of co-ethnic concentration for the minority identity and at very low levels of local concentration for the majority …

remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic … identity is a major issue; even more challenging is to measure its impact on economic outcomes such as the probability to work … or the earnings of immigrants. The thin but burgeoning theoretical and empirical literature shows that ethnic identity …

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

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 …