Ethnosizing immigrants

Amelie Constant, Liliya Gataullina and Klaus Zimmermann ()

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2009, vol. 69, issue 3, 274-287

Abstract: The ethnosizer, a new measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is proposed using information on language, culture, societal interaction, history of migration, and ethnic self-identification. A two-dimensional version classifies immigrants into four states: integration, assimilation, separation and marginalization. Results based on the German Socio-economic Panel for 2001 are as follows. Young migrants are assimilated or integrated the most. While Muslims and Christians do not integrate, both assimilate the best. Immigrants with college in the home country separate less. Having some schooling is worse than no schooling for integration and assimilation. While ex-Yugoslavs assimilate more, Greeks, Italians and Spaniards are no different than Turks.

Keywords: Ethnicity; Ethnic; identity; Acculturation; Migrant; assimilation; Migrant; integration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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