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Immigrants’ Identity, Economic Outcomes and the Transmission of Identity across Generations

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ID9715110
AuthorsTeresa Casey (University College London and Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration), Christian Dustmann (0000-0003-4396-1429, University College London and Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration)
Year2010
Volume120
Issue542
PagesF31-F51
Publication date2010-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Economic Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1468-0297.2009.02336.x
OpenAlexW2099860376
LanguageEN
Citations received62
References cited19

In this article we address three issues relating to immigrants' identity, measured as the feeling of belonging to particular ethnic groups. We study the formation of identity with home and host countries. We investigate how identity with either country relates to immigrants' and their children's labour market outcomes. Finally, we analyse the intergenerational transmission of identity. Our analysis is based on a unique longitudinal dataset on immigrants and their children. We find that identity with either country is only weakly related to labour market outcomes. However, there is strong intergenerational transmission of identity from one generation to the next. Copyright © The Author(s). Journal compilation © Royal Economic Society 2010

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