Amelie F Constant
Biographic Data
| ID | 890724 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amelie F Constant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amelie F |
| FAMILY NAME | Constant |
| SIGNATURE | CONSTANT A F |
| AFFILIATIONS | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5817-8579 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 358 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Who Emigrates From a Wealthy, Peaceful Country? And Who Comes Back? Evidence From Norway
Each year, millions of people emigrate from wealthy, peaceful countries. In this paper, we summarise research and available international data on the numbers and characteristics of those who move from wealthy countries in general. Next, we utilise rich Norwegian individual‐level register data and various quantitative methods to provide a broad description of emigrants from Norway over recent decades, as well as migration back to Norway, with a fo…
Goodbye Norway: Top-Earners Selection Into Return and Onward Migration
We use high-quality panel data on the entire population of Norway to study first-generation immigrants who arrived for labor and out-migrate during our observation period (2000‒2020). We utilize rarely available official information about status-at-arrival and destination-upon-exit to disaggregate immigrants into returnees, onward migrants, and stayers, which enables us to investigate underlying selection mechanisms and offer a better understandi…
Ethnic diversity and well-being
Ethnic Identity and Work
International Handbook on the Economics of Migration
The Dynamics of Repeat Migration: A Markov Chain Analysis
This article studies repeat or circular migration between the host and home countries using panel data for Germany, distinguishing between factors generating single moves, circular migration, and absorption. Migrants are more likely to leave early after their first arrival in Germany, and when they have social and familial bonds in the home country, but less likely when they have a job in Germany and speak the language well. Once out-migrated, th…
Ethnic persistence, assimilation and risk proclivity
This paper investigates whether immigrants adapt to the attitudes of the majority population in the host country by focusing on the effect of ethnic persistence and assimilation on individual risk proclivity. Employing information from a unique representative German survey, we find that adaptation to the host country closes the existing immigrant-native gap in risk proclivity by reducing immigrants' risk aversion and explains the systematic varia…
China's Latent Human Capital Investment: Achieving Milestones and Competing for the Top
Circular and Repeat Migration: Counts of Exits and Years Away from the Host Country
Ethnicity and Labor Market Outcomes
Work and money : payoffs by ethnic identity and gender / Amelie F. Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann -- Ancestry versus ethnicity : the complexity and selectivity of Mexican identification in the United States / Brian Duncan, Stephen J. Trejo -- Ethnicity, assimilation, and harassment in the labor market / Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang -- Citizenship in the United States : the roles of immigrant characteristics and country of origin / Barry R. Chiswick…
Ethnic Identity and Immigrant Homeownership
Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socioeconomic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic identity as a potential influence on the homeowner-ship decision, using a two-dimensional composite index of ethnic identity that incorporates attachments to both…
Measuring Ethnic Identity and its Impact on Economic Behavior
This article advocates for a new measure of the ethnic identity of migrants, models its determinants, and explores its explanatory power for economic performance. The ethnosizer, a measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is constructed from information on the following elements: language, media, ethnic self-identification, ethnic networks, and residency plans. The two-dimensional concept of the ethnosizer classifies migrants into …
The gender gap reloaded: Are school characteristics linked to labor market performance
Ethnic Self-Identification of First-Generation Immigrants
This paper uses the concept of ethnic self-identification of immigrants in a two-dimensional framework. It acknowledges that attachments to both the country of origin and the host country are not necessarily mutually exclusive. There are three possible paths of adjustment from separation at entry, namely the transitions to assimilation, integration, and marginalization. We analyze the determinants of ethnic self-identification in this process usi…
What Makes an Entrepreneur and Does it Pay? Native Men, Turks, and Other Migrants in Germany
This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavours of immigrants' and natives in Germany, concentrating on Turks, Germany's largest immigrant group and one under‐studied in the literature. Self‐employed Turks in Germany represent about 70 per cent of all Turkish entrepreneurs in the European Union. We use data from the German Socio‐economic Panel to study patterns of self‐employment. First, we identify the characteristics of the self‐employed i…
The Making of Entrepreneurs in Germany: Are Native Men and Immigrants Alike
Labor Market Segmentation and the Earnings of German Guestworkers
How Labor Migrants Fare
Return Migration by German Guestworkers: Neoclassical versus New Economic Theories
Neoclassical economics and the new economics of labour migration posit very different motivations for international migration. The former assumes that people move abroad permanently to maximize lifetime earnings whereas the latter assumes they leave temporarily to overcome market deficiencies at home. As a result, the two models yield very different conceptualizations of return migration. We draw upon each theoretical model to derive predictions …
Return Migration by German Guestworkers: Neoclassical versus New Economic Theories
Neoclassical economics and the new economics of labour migration posit very different motivations for international migration. The former assumes that people move abroad permanently to maximize lifetime earnings whereas the latter assumes they leave temporarily to overcome market deficiencies at home. As a result, the two models yield very different conceptualizations of return migration. We draw upon each theoretical model to derive predictions …
Labor Market Segmentation and the Earnings of German Guestworkers
Ethnic Identity and Immigrant Homeownership
Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socioeconomic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic identity as a potential influence on the homeowner-ship decision, using a two-dimensional composite index of ethnic identity that incorporates attachments to both…
Ethnic Self-Identification of First-Generation Immigrants
This paper uses the concept of ethnic self-identification of immigrants in a two-dimensional framework. It acknowledges that attachments to both the country of origin and the host country are not necessarily mutually exclusive. There are three possible paths of adjustment from separation at entry, namely the transitions to assimilation, integration, and marginalization. We analyze the determinants of ethnic self-identification in this process usi…
Circular and Repeat Migration: Counts of Exits and Years Away from the Host Country
The Dynamics of Repeat Migration: A Markov Chain Analysis
This article studies repeat or circular migration between the host and home countries using panel data for Germany, distinguishing between factors generating single moves, circular migration, and absorption. Migrants are more likely to leave early after their first arrival in Germany, and when they have social and familial bonds in the home country, but less likely when they have a job in Germany and speak the language well. Once out-migrated, th…
Ethnic diversity and well-being
International Handbook on the Economics of Migration
What Makes an Entrepreneur and Does it Pay? Native Men, Turks, and Other Migrants in Germany
This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavours of immigrants' and natives in Germany, concentrating on Turks, Germany's largest immigrant group and one under‐studied in the literature. Self‐employed Turks in Germany represent about 70 per cent of all Turkish entrepreneurs in the European Union. We use data from the German Socio‐economic Panel to study patterns of self‐employment. First, we identify the characteristics of the self‐employed i…
The gender gap reloaded: Are school characteristics linked to labor market performance
Who Emigrates From a Wealthy, Peaceful Country? And Who Comes Back? Evidence From Norway
Each year, millions of people emigrate from wealthy, peaceful countries. In this paper, we summarise research and available international data on the numbers and characteristics of those who move from wealthy countries in general. Next, we utilise rich Norwegian individual‐level register data and various quantitative methods to provide a broad description of emigrants from Norway over recent decades, as well as migration back to Norway, with a fo…
Goodbye Norway: Top-Earners Selection Into Return and Onward Migration
We use high-quality panel data on the entire population of Norway to study first-generation immigrants who arrived for labor and out-migrate during our observation period (2000‒2020). We utilize rarely available official information about status-at-arrival and destination-upon-exit to disaggregate immigrants into returnees, onward migrants, and stayers, which enables us to investigate underlying selection mechanisms and offer a better understandi…
Ethnic persistence, assimilation and risk proclivity
This paper investigates whether immigrants adapt to the attitudes of the majority population in the host country by focusing on the effect of ethnic persistence and assimilation on individual risk proclivity. Employing information from a unique representative German survey, we find that adaptation to the host country closes the existing immigrant-native gap in risk proclivity by reducing immigrants' risk aversion and explains the systematic varia…
Return Migration by German Guestworkers: Neoclassical versus New Economic Theories
Neoclassical economics and the new economics of labour migration posit very different motivations for international migration. The former assumes that people move abroad permanently to maximize lifetime earnings whereas the latter assumes they leave temporarily to overcome market deficiencies at home. As a result, the two models yield very different conceptualizations of return migration. We draw upon each theoretical model to derive predictions …
How Labor Migrants Fare
Labor Market Segmentation and the Earnings of German Guestworkers
The Making of Entrepreneurs in Germany: Are Native Men and Immigrants Alike
Ethnic Self-Identification of First-Generation Immigrants
This paper uses the concept of ethnic self-identification of immigrants in a two-dimensional framework. It acknowledges that attachments to both the country of origin and the host country are not necessarily mutually exclusive. There are three possible paths of adjustment from separation at entry, namely the transitions to assimilation, integration, and marginalization. We analyze the determinants of ethnic self-identification in this process usi…
What Makes an Entrepreneur and Does it Pay? Native Men, Turks, and Other Migrants in Germany
This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavours of immigrants' and natives in Germany, concentrating on Turks, Germany's largest immigrant group and one under‐studied in the literature. Self‐employed Turks in Germany represent about 70 per cent of all Turkish entrepreneurs in the European Union. We use data from the German Socio‐economic Panel to study patterns of self‐employment. First, we identify the characteristics of the self‐employed i…
Measuring Ethnic Identity and its Impact on Economic Behavior
This article advocates for a new measure of the ethnic identity of migrants, models its determinants, and explores its explanatory power for economic performance. The ethnosizer, a measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is constructed from information on the following elements: language, media, ethnic self-identification, ethnic networks, and residency plans. The two-dimensional concept of the ethnosizer classifies migrants into …
The gender gap reloaded: Are school characteristics linked to labor market performance
Ethnicity and Labor Market Outcomes
Work and money : payoffs by ethnic identity and gender / Amelie F. Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann -- Ancestry versus ethnicity : the complexity and selectivity of Mexican identification in the United States / Brian Duncan, Stephen J. Trejo -- Ethnicity, assimilation, and harassment in the labor market / Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang -- Citizenship in the United States : the roles of immigrant characteristics and country of origin / Barry R. Chiswick…
Ethnic Identity and Immigrant Homeownership
Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socioeconomic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic identity as a potential influence on the homeowner-ship decision, using a two-dimensional composite index of ethnic identity that incorporates attachments to both…
China's Latent Human Capital Investment: Achieving Milestones and Competing for the Top
Circular and Repeat Migration: Counts of Exits and Years Away from the Host Country
The Dynamics of Repeat Migration: A Markov Chain Analysis
This article studies repeat or circular migration between the host and home countries using panel data for Germany, distinguishing between factors generating single moves, circular migration, and absorption. Migrants are more likely to leave early after their first arrival in Germany, and when they have social and familial bonds in the home country, but less likely when they have a job in Germany and speak the language well. Once out-migrated, th…
Ethnic persistence, assimilation and risk proclivity
This paper investigates whether immigrants adapt to the attitudes of the majority population in the host country by focusing on the effect of ethnic persistence and assimilation on individual risk proclivity. Employing information from a unique representative German survey, we find that adaptation to the host country closes the existing immigrant-native gap in risk proclivity by reducing immigrants' risk aversion and explains the systematic varia…
International Handbook on the Economics of Migration
Ethnic Identity and Work
Ethnic diversity and well-being
Who Emigrates From a Wealthy, Peaceful Country? And Who Comes Back? Evidence From Norway
Each year, millions of people emigrate from wealthy, peaceful countries. In this paper, we summarise research and available international data on the numbers and characteristics of those who move from wealthy countries in general. Next, we utilise rich Norwegian individual‐level register data and various quantitative methods to provide a broad description of emigrants from Norway over recent decades, as well as migration back to Norway, with a fo…
Goodbye Norway: Top-Earners Selection Into Return and Onward Migration
We use high-quality panel data on the entire population of Norway to study first-generation immigrants who arrived for labor and out-migrate during our observation period (2000‒2020). We utilize rarely available official information about status-at-arrival and destination-upon-exit to disaggregate immigrants into returnees, onward migrants, and stayers, which enables us to investigate underlying selection mechanisms and offer a better understandi…
Economics (17 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (15 works) · Demographic economics (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Ethnic group (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Immigration (9 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works)