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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779056
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Ethnic Identity and Work
Constant, Amelie F. - 2014
Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045036
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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-Employment Proclivity : A Bi-National Study of Immigrants
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2021
paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment … for their integration in the labor market. Since the focus is on the understanding of the self-employment decision, a two …-stage structural probit model is employed that determines the willingness to work full-time (against part-time employment and not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318050
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Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Integration
Constant, Amelie F. - 2009
are economically assimilated. While some immigrant groups do, most do not, especially in Europe. Of equal importance is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153181
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Work and Money : Payoffs by Ethnic Identity and Gender
Constant, Amelie F. - 2009
Upon arrival in the host country, immigrants undergo a fundamental identity crisis. Their ethnic identity being questioned, they can be classified into four states - assimilation, integration, separation and marginalization. This is suggested by the ethnosizer, a newly established measure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158071
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Ethnic Spatial Dispersion and Immigrant Identity
Constant, Amelie F. - 2014
Ethnic groups tend to agglomerate and assemble, mostly in urban areas. While ethnic clustering is critically debated in societies and the consequences for economic outcomes are under debate in research, the process is not yet well understood. A separate literature has also examined the cultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061052
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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 … migration, and ethnic self-identification. A two-dimensional concept of the ethnosizer classifies migrants into four states …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316802
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317257
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Human Capital and Ethnic Self-Identification of Migrants
Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Zimmermann, Laura; Gataullina, Liliya - 2021
The paper investigates the role of human capital for migrants' ethnic ties towards their home and host countries. Pre …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317444
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Ethnosizing Immigrants
Constant, Amelie F.; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, … - 2021
age at the time of entry. Young migrants are assimilated or integrated the most. While Muslims do not integrate, Catholics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317646