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Ethnic spatial dispersion and immigrant identity

Constant, Amelie; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2023

The role of ethnic clustering in ethnic identity formation has remained unexplored, mainly due to missing detailed data …s and 1970s we find that local co-ethnic concentration affects immigrants' ethnic identity. While residential ethnic … clustering strengthens immigrants' retention of an affiliation with their origin (minority identity), it weakens identification …

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Forced migration, staying minorities, and new societies : evidence from post-war Czechoslovakia

Grossmann, Jakub; Jurajda, Štěpán; Rösel, Felix - 2021

identity supplanted German ethnic identity among stayers who faced new local ethnic majorities. …

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Social networks, ethnicity, and entrepreneurship

Kerr, William R.; Mandorff, Martin - 2016

We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United States cluster in specific business sectors. For example, the concentration of Korean self-employment in dry cleaners is 34 times greater than other immigrant groups, and...

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Anthropometry of love - height and gender asymmetries in interethnic marriages

Belot, Michèle; Fidrmuc, Jan - 2009

Both in the UK and in the US, we observe puzzling gender asymmetries in the propensity to outmarry: Black men are more likely to have white spouses than Black women, but the opposite is true for Chinese: Chinese men are half less likely to be married to a White person than Chinese women. We...

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Gender and ethnicity : married immigrants in Britain

Dustmann, Christian; Fabbri, Francesca - 2005

In this paper we investigate the economic activity of married or cohabiting female immigrants in Britain. We distinguish between two immigrant groups: foreign-born females who belong to an ethnic minority group and their husbands, and foreign-born white females and their husbands. We compare...

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COVID-19 and mental health deterioration among BAME groups in the UK

Proto, Eugenio; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2020

We use the UK Household Longitudinal Study and compare pre- (2017-2019) and post-COVID19 data (April 2020) for the same group of individuals to assess and quantify changes in mental health among ethnic groups in the UK. We confirm the previously documented average deterioration in mental health...

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Ethnic enclaves and welfare cultures : quasi-experimental evidence

Åslund, Olof; Fredriksson, Peter - 2005

We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy. We distinguish between the quantity of contacts? the number of individuals of the same ethnicity?and the quality of contacts – welfare use among members of the ethnic group....

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Economic nationalism and economic integration : the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the late nineteenth century

Schulze, Max-Stephan; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2009

This paper seeks to reconcile two seemingly contradictory strands in the literature on economic development in the late nineteenth century Habsburg Empire - one emphasizing the centrifugal impact of rising intra-empire of nationalism, the other stressing significant improvements in market...

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Racial differences in labor market transitions and the Great Recession

Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Xu, Huanan - 2016

Labor force transitions are empirically examined using CPS data matched across months from 1996-2012 for Hispanics, African-Americans and whites. Transition probabilities are contrasted prior to the Great Recession and afterwards. Estimates indicate that minorities are more likely to be fired as...

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The impact of city contracting set-asides on black self-employment and employment

Chatterji, Aaron K.; Chay, Kenneth Y.; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2013

In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...

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