Immigrants’ ethnic identity and economic outcomes

Klaus F. Zimmermann interviewed by Romesh Vaitilingam, 08 August 2008

The ‘ethnosizer’ is a new measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, using information on language, culture, social interaction, history of migration and ethnic self-identification. Klaus Zimmermann, who has developed the measure, talks to Romesh Vaitilingam about its explanatory power for the economic outcomes of migrants in Germany.

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Topics:  Labour markets

Tags:  migrants, ethnic identity

Klaus F. Zimmermann

Professor (em.), Bonn University, President Global Labor Organization (GLO) and Co-Director, of the Center for Population, Development and Labour Economics, UNU-MERIT, Maastricht

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