Ethnic Self-Identification of First-Generation Immigrants

Laura Zimmermann, Klaus Zimmermann () and Amelie Constant

No 657, Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin from DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research

Abstract: This paper uses the concept of ethnic self-identification of immigrants in a twodimensional 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 the transitions to assimilation, integration and marginalization. We analyze the determinants of ethnic selfidentification in this process using samples of first-generation immigrants for males and females separately, and controlling for pre- and post-migration characteristics. We find strong gender differences and the unimportance of a wide range of premigration characteristics like religion and education at home.

Keywords: Ethnic self-identification; first-generation immigrants; gender; ethnicity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 J15 J16 Z10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 p.
Date: 2006
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Working Paper: Ethnic Self-Identification of First-Generation Immigrants (2007)
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