Arbeitspapier

Human Capital and Ethnic Self-Identification of Migrants

The paper investigates the role of human capital for migrants' ethnic ties towards their home and host countries. Pre-migration characteristics dominate ethnic selfidentification. Human capital acquired in the host country does not affect the attachment to the receiving country.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: DIW Discussion Papers ; No. 616

Classification
Wirtschaft
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
International Migration
Cultural Economics; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology: General
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Subject
Ethnic self-identification
first-generation migrants
gender
ethnicity
human capital
Migranten
Humankapital
Ethnische Beziehungen
Soziale Integration
Deutschland

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Zimmermann, Laura
Gataullina, Liliya
Constant, Amelie F.
Zimmermann, Klaus F.
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
(where)
Berlin
(when)
2006

Handle
Last update
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Zimmermann, Laura
  • Gataullina, Liliya
  • Constant, Amelie F.
  • Zimmermann, Klaus F.
  • Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)

Time of origin

  • 2006

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