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Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

The European Union's strategy to raise employment is confronted with very low work participation among many minority … and host country ethnicity to explain that deficit. It introduces a two-dimensional understanding of ethnic identity, as a … immigrants. Using unique German survey data, the paper identifies marked gender differences in the effects of ethnic …

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Measuring Ethnic Identity and Its Impact on Economic Behavior

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

. Empirical evidence studying economic behavior like work participation, earnings and housing decisions demonstrates the …

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Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Integration

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 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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Ethnosizing Immigrants

Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

ethnicity of individuals, measured by country of origin, remains relevant. …

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Clash of Cultures: Muslims and Christians in the Ethnosizing Process

Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 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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Ethnic Self-Identification of First-Generation Immigrants

Zimmermann, Laura; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Constant, Amelie - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

males and females separately, and controlling for pre- and post-migration characteristics. We find strong gender differences …

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Human Capital and Ethnic Self-Identification of Migrants

Zimmermann, Laura; Gataullina, Liliya; Constant, Amelie; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

The paper investigates the role of human capital for migrants' ethnic ties towards their home and host countries. Pre-migration characteristics dominate ethnic self-identification. Human capital acquired in the host country does not affect the attachment to the receiving country.

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Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 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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