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Do Minorities Misrepresent Their Ethnicity to Avoid Discrimination?

Kudashvili, Nikoloz - 2019

Georgian trustors discriminate against the ethnic Armenian minority group. We introduce an initial signaling stage to …

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Investing in Influence : How Minority Interests Can Prevail in a Democracy

Skaperdas, Stergios; Vaidya, Samarth - 2021

How can the West’s economic and political polarization be explained? We argue that persuasive lobbying at various levels of government leads to systematic deviations of policies from those desired by the majority. Implemented policies diverge from the majority position despite centripetal...

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Ethnicity and Tax Filing Behavior

Bastani, Spencer - 2019

We analyze differences in tax filing behavior between natives and immigrants using population-wide Swedish administrative data, focusing on two empirical examples. First, controlling for a rich set of variables, we compare deduction behavior of immigrants and natives with the same commuting...

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Minority voting and long-term decisions

Gersbach, Hans; Fahrenberger, Theresa - 2008

In this paper we propose minority voting as a scheme that can partially protect individuals from the risk of repeated …: voting winners, voting losers, and absentees. Under minority voting only voting losers keep the voting right in the second … period. We show that as soon as absolute risk aversion exceeds a threshold value minority voting is superior to repeated …

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The Impacts of COVID-19 on Minority Unemployment : First Evidence from April 2020 CPS Microdata

Couch, Kenneth A. - 2020

the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study of how the pandemic impacted minority unemployment using CPS …

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Migration and Cultural Change

Rapoport, Hillel - 2020

We examine both theoretically and empirically how migration affects cultural change in home and host countries. Our theoretical model integrates various compositional and cultural transmission mechanisms of migration-based cultural change for which it delivers distinctive testable predictions on...

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Trust, Ethnic Diversity, and Personal Contact : A Field Experiment

Finseraas, Henning - 2019

minorities less, but random assignment to interact with minority soldiers removes this negative correlation. We conclude that …

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Measuring Ethnic Stratification and its Effect on Trust in Africa

Hodler, Roland - 2019

We define and axiomatically characterize an index of ethnic stratification that measures the extent to which the hierarchy in socio-economic positions across the individuals of a society follows ethnolinguistic lines. This index generalizes the idea of between-group inequality to situations...

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Ethnic Identity and the Employment Outcomes of Immigrants : Evidence from France

Delaporte, Isaure - 2019

The objective of this paper is twofold: first, to determine the immigrants' ethnic identity, i.e. the degree of identification to the culture and society of the country of origin and the host country and second, to investigate the impact of ethnic identity on the immigrants' employment outcomes....

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Ethnofederalism and Ethnic Voting

Bluhm, Richard; Hodler, Roland; Schaudt, Paul - 2021

We investigate how changes in the administrative-territorial structure affect ethnic voting. We present an event study design that exploits the 2010 constitutional reform in Kenya, which substantially increased the number of primary administrative regions. We find (i) strong evidence for a...

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