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Racial Beliefs, Location and the Causes of Crime

Verdier, Thierry; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2003

This paper provides a unified explanation for why blacks commit more crime, are located in poorer neighborhoods and receive lower wages than whites. If everybody believes that blacks are more criminal than whites - even if there is no basis for this - then blacks are offered lower wages and, as...

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Crime, Location and the Housing Market

Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2005

We highlight the role of commuting cost, location and housing market in crime decision. By assuming that all crimes are committed in the central business district and that criminals create both positive and negative externalities to each other, we find that high wages or large levels of police...

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Ethnic Diversity and Civil War

Tangerås, Thomas P.; Lagerlöf, Nils-Petter - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2002

We construct a model in which a number of equally powerful ethnic groups compete for power by engaging in civil war. In non-redistributive equilibrium, ethnically homogeneous and ethnically diverse countries face a lower probability of civil war than countries with a moderate degree of ethnic...

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Are Female Workers Less Productive Than Male Workers? Productivity and the Gender Wage Gap

Meyerson, Eva M.; Petersen, Trond; Snartland, Vemund - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998

It is extraordinarily difficult to determine the extent to which the gender wage gap reflects discriminatory behaviors … of gender because one is paid for what one produces. With this as our point of departure, we compared men and women … easy to summarize. First, the gender wage gap is clearly smaller under piece- than under time-rate work. According to the …

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Are Female Workers Less Productive Than Male Workers? Productivity and the Gender Wage Gap?

Meyerson, E.M.; Petersen, T.; Snartland, V. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998

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Women's Representation and Public Spending

Svaleryd, Helena - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007

This paper studies whether the degree of women’s representation in Swedish local councils affects local public expenditure patterns. Theoretically, the individual preferences of elected representatives may have an impact on public expenditure if full policy commitment is not feasible. To...

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Job Contact Networks and the Ethnic Minorities

Battu, Harminder; Seaman, Paul; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2004

This paper examines the job finding methods of different ethnic groups in the UK. The theoretical framework shows that less assimilated ethnic unemployed workers are more likely to use their friends and family as their main method of search but they have less chance of finding a job using this...

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Employer Attitudes towards Refugee Immigrants

Lundborg, Per; Skedinger, Per - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

We present a large survey with responses from Swedish firms on their attitudes towards refugees, regarding hiring, job performance, wage setting and discrimination. Generally, firms report positive experiences of having refugees as employees, but we also document a great deal of heterogeneity in...

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City Structure, Job Search, and Labor Discrimination. Theory and Policy Implications

Selod, Harris; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2004

We consider a search-matching model in which black workers are discriminated against and the job arrival rates of all workers depend on social networks as well as distance to jobs. Location choices are driven by the racial preferences of households (both blacks and whites) consciously choosing...

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Do Oppositional Identities Reduce Employment for Ethnic Minorities?

Battu, Harminder; Mwale, McDonald; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2003

We develop a model in which non-white individuals are defined with respect to their social environment (family, friends, neighbors) and their attachments to their culture of origin (religion, language), and in which jobs are mainly found through social networks. We find that, depending on how...

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