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provided by the Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities in the UK enables us to test the relative significance of these two …
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and survey information indicate that local and wholesale buyers do not have different tastes for discrimination. This …This paper studies the effect of competition on ethnic discrimination by carrying out a field experiment in the context … majority or minority names. First, we find that there is no ethnic difference in buyers' evaluation of rice quality. Second, we …
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Using the UK Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities, we explore the determinants of religious identity for Muslims … ethnic minorities, especially for Muslims. This result casts doubts on the foundations of the integration policies in Europe …
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provide other sources of information about jobs. If distant minority workers mainly rely on their strong ties, who are more …
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Where a community or group is socially excluded from a dominant group, some individuals of that group may identify with the dominant culture and others may reject that culture. The aim of this paper is to investigate this issue by empirically analyzing the potential trade-off for ethnic...
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We consider a model where each individual (or ethnic minority) is embedded in a network of relation-ships and decides …
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We investigate the sources of differences in school performance between students of different races by focusing on identity issues. We find that having a higher percentage of same-race friends has a positive effect of white teenagers' test score while having a negative effect on blacks' test...
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We analyse the effect of strong and weak ties on the individual probability of finding a job. Using the dynamic model of Calvó-Armengol and Jackson (2004), two results are put forward: (i) the individual probability of finding a job is increasing in the number of strong and weak ties; (ii) the...
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discrimination, we show that the majority group always has a lower unemployment rate than the minority group both when ethnic …
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We study labor-market discrimination of individuals with specific characteristics in Italy. We conduct a field …
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