The paper provides a new measure of the ethnic identity of immigrants and explores its evolution in the host country. The ethnosizer, a measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is constructed from information on the following elements: language, culture, societal interaction,...

Zugewanderten Personen fällt es insgesamt weiterhin schwerer als der einheimischen Bevölkerung, sich erfolgreich in Bildungsprozessen, in den Arbeitsmarkt und in ökonomisch relvante Bereiche des gesellschaftlichen Lebens zu integrieren. Der IW-Integrationsmonitor erfasst und bewertet mithilfe...

For a long time, migration has been subject to intensive economic research. Nevertheless, empirical evidence regarding the determinants of migration still appears to be incomplete. In this paper, we analyze the effects of socio-economic and institutional determinants, especially labor-market...