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Recently, Constant, Gataullina, and Zimmermann (2009) established a new method to measure ethnic identity which they called the "ethnosizer". Using information on an individual's language, culture, social interactions, history of migration, and ethnic self-identification, the method classifies...
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The objective of this paper is to analyse how immigrants' ethnic identity correlates with their labour market outcomes. More precisely, we estimate the role of ethnic identity in employment, wages, under-employment (i.e., they would prefer to work more hours but are not given the opportunity),...
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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 …
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.S.-born descendants. We also find that these two immigrant groups tend to enter entrepreneurship from unemployment or inactivity and they …
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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...
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age at the time of entry. Young migrants are assimilated or integrated the most. While Muslims do not integrate, Catholics …
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language proficiency of migrants. These studies, however, ignore the choice of location as a function of language skills. Using … data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that migrants choose smaller networks as their English language proficiency …
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This paper explores the relationship between social identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants. Using survey data from Italy, we provide robust evidence that immigrants with stronger feelings of belonging to the societies of both the host and home country have higher employment rates,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012392708
The objective of this paper is to analyse how immigrants' ethnic identity correlates with their labour market outcomes. More precisely, we estimate the role of ethnic identity in employment, wages, under-employment (i.e., they would prefer to work more hours but are not given the opportunity),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422534
This paper explores the relationship between social identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants. Using survey data from Italy, we provide robust evidence that immigrants with stronger feelings of belonging to the societies of both the host and home country have higher employment rates,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497035