Human Capital and Ethnic Self-Identification of Migrants

DIW Discussion Papers 616, 9 S.

Laura Zimmermann, Liliya Gataullina, Amelie Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann

2006. Sep.

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Published in: Economics Letters 98 (2008), Iss. 3, 235-239

Abstract

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

Topics: Productivity, Education, Labor and employment



JEL-Classification: F22;J15;J16;J24;Z10
Keywords: Ethnic self-identification, first-generation migrants, gender, ethnicity, human capital
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http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18509

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