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Amelie F. Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann, Measuring Ethnic Identity and Its Impact on Economic Behavior, Journal of the European Economic Association, Volume 6, Issue 2-3, 1 May 2008, Pages 424–433, https://doi.org/10.1162/JEEA.2008.6.2-3.424
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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.