TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Measuring ethnic identity and its impact on economic behavior
JO  - Journal of the European Economic Association
A1  - Constant, Amelie F.
A1  - Zimmermann, Klaus F.
SP  - 424
EP  - 433
VL  - 6
IS  - 2‐3
N2  - 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 /> 
LA  - 
SN  - 1542-4766
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/JEEA.2008.6.2-3.424
ID  - ref1
ER  -