A scarce literature deals with the consumption implications of cultural assimilation and integration, ethnic clustering and diasporas, the marginal propensity to consume, home production and allocation of time, ethnic consumption, migration, and trade, as well as native consumption responses....

In the Western world, multiculturalism has become the way to view and form "nationhood," igniting the interest to understand and model identity. The complexity of identity formation, however, has been firm and ethnic and national identities have been deviating more and more. In this paper, we...

1. Ethnic minorities in the European Union : an overview / Martin Kahanec, Anzelika Zaiceva and Klaus F. Zimmermann -- 2. An expert stakeholder's view on European integration challenges / Amelie F. Constant, Martin Kahanec and Klaus F. Zimmermann -- 3. The practice of minority integration in the...

This paper studies the determinants of naturalization among Turkish and ex-Yugoslavimmigrants in Germany differentiating between actual and planned citizenship. Using theGerman Socio-Economic Panel, we measure the impact that integration and ethnicityindicators exert on the probability to...

The paper advocates for a new measure of the ethnic identity of migrants, models itsdeterminants and explores its explanatory power for various types of their economicperformance...

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...

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...