Immigrants’ ethnic identity and economic outcomes

Season 1, Episode 1,   Aug 08, 2008, 05:15 PM

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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.