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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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Work and money: payoffs by ethnic identity and gender

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

immigrants in Germany show that ethnic identity is important for the decision to work and significantly and differentially … affects the labor force participation of men and women. Women who exhibit the integrated identity are more likely to work than …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269182

The effect of ethnic identity on the employment of immigrants

Drydakis, Nick - 2012

This study evaluates the effect of ethnic identity on the employment level of immigrants in Greece. Treating ethnic identity as a composite of key cultural elements the estimations suggest that employment is positively associated with assimilation and integration and negatively associated with...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282224

Ethnic identity and immigrants' wages in Greece

Drydakis, Nick - 2011

This study investigates the impact of ethnic identity on Albanian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Georgian, and Russian wages in Greece. Treating ethnic identity as a composite of language, cultural habits, ethnic-self identification, societal interaction, and future citizenship plans, the estimations...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282419

Native-migrant differences in risk attitudes

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie F.; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2006

This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.

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Ethnicity, job search and labor market reintegration of the unemployed

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

This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment in Germany. Our data include a large number of migration variables, allowing us to adapt a recently developed concept of ethnic identity: the ethnosizer. To shed further light...

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Measuring ethnic identity and its impact on economic behavior

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007

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

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272025

Parental ethnic identity and educational attainment of second-generation immigrants

Schüller, Simone - 2011

- even controlling for differences in ethnicity, family background and years-since-migration. Additional tests show that the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282530

Ethnicity and the immigration of highly skilled workers to the United States

Jasso, Guillermina - 2009

This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic … components of ethnicity -country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion - among persons admitted to legal permanent …. India dominates EB-2 and European countries EB-1. (2) The ethnicity portfolio contains more languages than religions. (3 …

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The effect of enclave residence on the labour force activities of immigrants in Canada

Tu, Jiong - 2010

It has been well documented that immigrants' clustering of residence in large cities has been associated with the creation of a number of ethnic enclaves. The intensive exposure to own-ethnic population could affect immigrant labour market involvement positively or negatively. However, no extant...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269543

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