%0 Journal Article
%T Measuring ethnic identity and its impact on economic behavior
%J Journal of the European Economic Association
%D 2008
%A Constant, Amelie F.
%A Zimmermann, Klaus F.
%V 6
%N 2‐3
%P 424-433
%X 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 />
%G 
%I John Wiley and Sons
%@ 1542-4766
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/JEEA.2008.6.2-3.424