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Diaspora economics

Constant, Amelie F. (ed.); Zimmermann, Klaus F. (ed.) - 2016

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011625047

Diaspora economics : new perspectives

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: International journal of manpower 37 (2016) 7, pp. 1110-1135

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Is child like parent? : educational attainment and ethnic origin

Gang, Ira N.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1999

The speed at which immigrants assimilate is the subject of debate. Human capital formation plays a major role in this discussion. This paper compares the educational attainment of second generation immigrants to those of natives in the same age cohort. Evidence using a large German data set...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011313954

International migration, ethnicity and economic inequality

Kahanec, Martin (contributor); … - 2008

position in comparison to those at home, stimulate the economic situation of the sending countries through remittances and rise … ; migration ; ethnicity ; minority ; assimilation ; integration ; ethnosizing ; Gini-coefficient …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003688796

Work and money : payoffs by ethnic identity and gender

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

on language, culture, societal interaction, history of migration, and ethnic self-identification. In what state …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872706

Ethnic self-identification of first-generation immigrants

Zimmermann, Laura (contributor); … - 2006

for males and females separately, and controlling for pre- and post-migration characteristics. We find strong gender … differences and the unimportance of a wide range of pre-migration characteristics like religion and education at home. …

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Ethnic persistence, assimilation and risk proclivity

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - 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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Ethnic identity and immigrant homeownership

Constant, Amelie (contributor); Roberts, Rowan (contributor) - 2007

Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socio-economic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic...

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Measuring ethnic identity and its impact on economic behavior

Constant, Amelie (contributor); … - 2007

migration, and ethnic self-identification. A two-dimensional concept of the ethnosizer classifies migrants into four states …: integration, assimilation, separation and marginalization. The ethnosizer largely depends on pre-migration characteristics …

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Migrant ethnic identity : concept and policy implications

Zimmermann, Klaus F. (contributor) - 2007

With globalization, the size of migration and the value of ethnicity is rising. Also Cyprus undergoes a strong process … of change while experiencing large inflows of migration. The paper investigates the challenges and the potentials of … migration from a European Union perspective. It advocates for a new concept to measure the ethnic identity of migrants, models …

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