Ethnic Identity and Immigrants' Labour Market Outcomes

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The objective of this paper is to analyse how immigrants' ethnic identity correlates with their labour market outcomes. More precisely, we estimate the role of ethnic identity in employment, wages, under-employment (i.e., they would prefer to work more hours but are not given the opportunity), three measures of job satisfaction, overeducation and wages. We further explore whether economic downturn has a differentiated impact on these measures. Using Australian longitudinal data, we find that ethnic identity is strongly associated with employment and wages as well a number of job satisfaction measures. We then split our data and repeat the estimations for before and after the Great Financial Crisis of 2008-09. We find important differences in the way ethnic identity is associated with different measures of labour market outcomes under different economic conditions. Finally, we explore the mechanisms through which some of results could be explained.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 14123

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; International Migration ; Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination ; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination ; Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure ; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
• Subject: ethnic identity ; assimilation ; employment ; wages ; job quality ; overeducation

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Piracha, Matloob ; Tani, Massimiliano ; Cheng, Zhiming ; Wang, Ben Zhe
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2021

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/232875
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET