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In this paper, we analyse the association between spatial concentration of ethnic minorities, and racial harassment. Ethnic concentration relates to racial harassment through at least three channels: hostility in attitudes of majority individuals that find expression in harassment behaviour, the...
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satisfaction differs by race or ethnicity. We use data from the 2010 National Survey of College Graduates to examine the relation … between job satisfaction and race and ethnicity among Asian, black, Hispanic/Latino, and white workers. Overall job …
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, for distribution, ethnic conflict and crime. We develop a two-community model where such assimilation generates social … gains by: (a) facilitating economic interaction, and (b) dampening religious or racial conflict over symbolic and normative …
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Employing a lab experiment, we directly test the empirical importance of key attitudes underlying the models of taste-based and statistical discrimination in explaining ethnic hiring discrimination. We find evidence that employer concern that co-workers and customers will prefer collaborating...
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Unequal labour market outcomes between Roma and non-Roma have typically been explained by either the low level of educational attainment on the one hand or labour marked discrimination on the other - or both. A number of studies have found that significant labour market inequalities persist even...
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that ethnicity is largely a social construct where individuals can often choose to identify with an ethnic group that may … with the observability of ethnicity, and the exposure to situations where there is a risk of discrimination, to produce a …
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The wage gap between African-Americans and white Americans is substantial in the US and has slightly narrowed over the past 30 years. Today, blacks have almost achieved the same educational level as whites. There is reason to believe that discrimination driven by prejudice plays a part in...
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It is almost universally assumed that race is an exogenously given trait that is not subject to change. But as race is most often self-reported by individuals who must weigh the costs and benefits of associating with minority groups, we ask whether racial self-identification responds to economic...
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We present the first quantitative analysis of the impact of ending de jure segregation of Mexican-American school children in the United States by examining the effects of the 1947 Mendez v. Westminster court decision on long-run educational attainment for Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites in...
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Using a choice experiment, we test whether taste-based employee discrimination against ethnic minorities is susceptible to loss aversion. In line with empirical evidence from previous research, our results indicate that introducing a hypothetical wage penalty for discriminatory choice behaviour...
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