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Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship
Kerr, William - 2017
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 - 2011
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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Caught between Cultures: Unintended Consequences of Improving Opportunity for Immigrant Girls
Dahl, Gordon B.; Felfe, Christina; Frijters, Paul; … - 2020
their parents value more traditional cultural outcomes? Building on Akerlof and Kranton's identity framework (2000), we … consequence of reducing their well-being, since identity-concerned parents will constrain their daughter's choices. The model can … self-esteem for immigrant girls. This is especially true for Muslims, where traditional cultural identity is particularly …
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The Social Integration of International Migrants: Evidence from the Networks of Syrians in Germany
Bailey, Michael; Johnston, Drew; Koenen, Martin; … - 2022
We use de-identified data from Facebook to study the social integration of Syrian migrants in Germany, a country that received a large influx of refugees during the Syrian Civil War. We construct measures of migrants’ social integration based on Syrians’ friendship links to Germans, their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013266645
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Trust and racial income inequality : evidence from the U.S.
Tesei, Andrea - 2015
Existing studies of trust formation in U.S. metropolitan areas have found that trust is lower when there is more income inequality and greater racial fragmentation. I add to this literature by examining the role of income inequality between racial groups (racial income inequality). I find that...
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The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment
Chatterji, Aaron - 2014
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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Economic Nationalism and Economic Integration : The Austro-Hungarian Empire in the Late Nineteenth Century
Schulze, Max-Stephan - 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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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 … ethnic identity on the immigrants' employment outcomes. Using rich survey data from France and relying on a polychoric … principal component analysis, this paper proposes two richer measures of ethnic identity than the ones used in the literature …
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Do Minorities Misrepresent Their Ethnicity to Avoid Discrimination?
Kudashvili, Nikoloz - 2019
Discrimination against minorities is pervasive in many societies, but little is known about minorities' strategies to avoid being discriminated against. In our trust game among 758 high-school students in the country of Georgia, ethnic Georgian trustors discriminate against the ethnic Armenian...
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How does it feel to be part of the minority? : impacts of perspective taking on prosocial behavior
Rodríguez Chatruc, Marisol; Rozo, Sandra V. - 2021
Can taking the perspective of an out-group reduce prejudice and promote prosociality? Building on insights from social psychology, we study the case of Colombian natives and Venezuelan immigrants. We conducted an online experiment in which we randomly assigned natives to either play an online...
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