Ethnic Identity and Work

Amelie Constant

No 8571, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often perceived as irrational and suboptimal choices. Quantifying ethnic identity is a major issue; even more challenging is to measure its impact on economic outcomes such as the probability to work or the earnings of immigrants. The thin but burgeoning theoretical and empirical literature shows that ethnic identity has a significant impact on the economic behavior of immigrants.

Keywords: marginalization; integration; labor markets; labor force participation; informal networks; immigration; identity; human capital; ethnicity; ethnic identity; employment; discrimination; assimilation; national identity; oppositional identity; separation; wages; work (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 J15 Z10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2014-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-lab and nep-mig
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Published - published in: J.D. Wright (ed) the International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition, 2015, 106-112

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