期刊名称：DIW Diskussionspapiere / Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Berlin
出版年度：2007
卷号：2007
出版社：Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Berlin
摘要：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 following elements:
language, culture, societal interaction, history of migration, and ethnic
self-identification. A two-dimensional concept of the ethnosizer classifies
migrants into four states: integration, assimilation, separation and
marginalization. The ethnosizer largely depends on pre-migration
characteristics. Empirical evidence studying economic behavior like work
participation, earnings and housing decisions demonstrates the significant
relevance of ethnic identity for economic outcomes.
