@article{ref1,
title="Measuring ethnic identity and its impact on economic behavior",
journal="Journal of the European Economic Association",
year="2008",
author="Constant, Amelie F. and Zimmermann, Klaus F.",
volume="6",
number="2‐3",
pages="424-433",
abstract="This article advocates for a new measure of the ethnic identity of migrants, models its determinants, and explores its explanatory power for economic performance. The ethnosizer, a measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is constructed from information on the following elements: language, media, ethnic self-identification, ethnic networks, and residency plans. The two-dimensional concept of the ethnosizer classifies migrants into four states: assimilation, integration, marginalization, and separation. The ethnosizer is found to mainly depend on pre-migration characteristics, and to be exogenous to economic activity. Ethnic identity significantly affects economic outcomes. (JEL: F22; J15; J16; Z10)<p />",
language="",
issn="1542-4766",
doi="10.1162/JEEA.2008.6.2-3.424",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/JEEA.2008.6.2-3.424"
}