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Ethnic identity and work
Constant, Amelie - 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/10010418958
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Parental ethnic identity and child development
Campbell, Stuart; Nuevo-Chiquero, Ana; Popli, Gurleen; … - 2019
We examine the relationship between parental ethnic identity and cognitive development in ethnic minority children. This aspect of parental identity may shape children's cognitive outcomes through a direct influence on parenting behaviour, or by mediating parental access to social resources....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011974433
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Identity multiplicity among the Muslim second generation in European cities : where are religious and ethnic identities compatible or conflicting with civic identities?
Fleischmann, Fenella; Phalet, Karen - 2010
Drawing on recent cross-nationally comparative survey data of the Turkish and Moroccan second generation in five European cities, this study examines the patterns of identification with ethnic, religious, national and city identities. We take a comparative perspective and analyse data from five...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009526298
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Bolstering white American's ethnic identity resiliency : self-affirmation, authentic best-self reflection, and mindfulness meditation
Kinias, Zoe; Fennessy, Marie-Claire - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011665890
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Parental ethnic identity and child development
Campbell, Stuart; Nuevo-Chiquero, Ana; Popli, Gurleen; … - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978796
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Overconfidence and career choice
Schulz, Jonathan F.; Thöni, Christian - 2014
important factor for selection into various career paths. In a sample of 711 first-year students we examine whether there are … confidence measure: While Political Science students exhibit the highest confidence levels, students of Humanities range at the … other end of the scale. This may have important implications for subsequent earnings and/or professions students select …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010436503
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Ethnic spatial dispersion and immigrant identity
Constant, Amelie; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 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/10010229936
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Ethnic spatial dispersion and immigrant identity : conference paper
Constant, Amelie; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, Klaus 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/10010486749
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Measuring ethnic identity and its impact on economic behavior
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630478
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Ethnic identity and immigrant homeownership
Constant, Amelie; Roberts, Rowan; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007
Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socio-economic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630741