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Work and Money : Payoffs by Ethnic Identity and Gender

Constant, Amelie F. - 2009

immigrants in Germany show that ethnic identity is important for the decision to work and significantly and differentially …

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Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity

Bonin, Holger - 2007

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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Gender, Ethnic Identity and Work

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2006

The European Union's strategy to raise employment is confronted with very low work participation among many minority ethnic groups, in particular among immigrants. This study examines the potential of immigrants' identification with the home and host country ethnicity to explain that deficit. It...

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Measuring Ethnic Identity and its Impact on Economic Behavior

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2021

The paper advocates for a new measure of the ethnic identity of migrants, models its determinants and explores its explanatory power for various types of their economic performance. The ethnosizer, a measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is constructed from information on the...

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Ethnic Self-Identification of First-Generation Immigrants

Zimmermann, Laura; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Constant, Amelie F. - 2021

This paper uses the concept of ethnic self-identification of immigrants in a two-dimensional framework. It acknowledges the fact that attachments to the home and the host country are not necessarily mutually exclusive. There are three possible paths of adjustment from separation at entry, namely...

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Clash of Cultures : Muslims and Christians in the Ethnosizing Process

Constant, Amelie F.; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, … - 2021

data from Germany, a large European country with many immigrants, we study the adaptation processes of Muslims and …

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Ethnosizing Immigrants

Constant, Amelie F.; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, … - 2021

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 elements: language, culture, societal interaction,...

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Self-Employment Dynamics Across the Business Cycle : Migrants Versus Natives

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2021

Economically active people are either in gainful employment, are unemployed or self-employed. We are interested in the dynamics of the transitions between these states across the business cycle. It is generally perceived that employment or self-employment are absorbing states. However,...

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Ethnic German Migration Since 1989 - Results and Perspectives/ Aussiedler Seit 1989 - Bilanz Und Perspektiven

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2023

Among all European countries, Germany absorbs by far the largest number of immigrants. But to date, the German … economic situation in Germany deteriorated. Ethnic Germans are basically facing the same difficulties with social and economic … integration as foreigners. A majority of young Ethnic Germans have no cultural or language ties to Germany. Insufficient language …

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