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Ethnic Spatial Dispersion and Immigrant Identity
Constant, Amelie F.; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
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/10010734420
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Living and Working in Ethnic Enclaves: Language Proficiency of Immigrants in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Beckhusen, Julia; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; de Graaff, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
study uses data from the 2010 American Community Survey to examine the impact of residential and occupational segregation on … immigrants' ability to speak English. We allow for heterogeneity in the relationship between segregation and English language … those who are less residentially and occupationally segregated. The magnitude of the effect of segregation on language …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650609
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Living and Working in Ethnic Enclaves: Language Proficiency of Immigrants in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Graaff, Thomas de; Poot, Jacques; … - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012
study uses data from the 2010 American Community Survey to examine the impact of residential and occupational segregation on … immigrants' ability to speak English. We allow for heterogeneity in the relationship between segregation and English language … those who are less residentially and occupationally segregated. The magnitude of the effect of segregation on language …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009493087
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Ethnic Differences in Realising Desires to Leave the Neighbourhood
Boschman, Sanne; Kleinhans, Reinout; van Ham, Maarten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Selective mobility into and out of neighbourhoods is one of the driving forces of segregation. Empirical research has … neighbourhoods but is unable to do so will contribute to a better understanding of the drivers of segregation, especially in the … context of the debate on voluntary segregation versus segregation due to a lack of choice. We find that ethnic minority groups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959738
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Ethnic Spatial Dispersion and Immigrant Identity
Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Constant, Amelie; Schüller, Simone - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 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/10011163927
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Minorities in Rural China: Poorer but Inherently Happier?
Knight, John; Shi, Li; Chang, Yuan - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2014
This is a pioneering study of the determinants of the subjective well-being of ethnic minority people in rural China, using a specially designed sample survey relating to 2011. The underlying hypothesis is that the lifestyle and attitudes of ethnic minorities contribute to their happiness. Five...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887045
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Ethnic Identity and Work
Constant, Amelie F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10010959840
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Measuring Ethnic Identity and Its Impact on Economic Behavior
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007
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/10005018712
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The Effect of Ethnic Identity on the Employment of Immigrants
Drydakis, Nick - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10009646317
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Cultural Distance, Immigrants' Identity, and Labour Market Outcomes
Islam, Asadul; Raschky, Paul Anton - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2013
Consistent estimates of the effect of ethnic identity on labor market outcomes is complicated by the endogenous relationship between performance on the labor market and attitudes towards ethnic identity. This paper uses measures of genetic and linguistic distance between an immigrants' home and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010667363