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I consider a market with two firms, a minority group of customers, and a bigoted (racist, ethnocentric, xenophobic, or … only the minority and a high-price firm serves only the majority. There is also a partial-integration equilibrium in which … a high-price firm serves only the majority while a low-price firm serves both the minority and majority. Paradoxically …
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economic costs to society of sexual-orientation discrimination were significantly more likely than those in a control group to …
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the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study of how the pandemic impacted minority unemployment using CPS …
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How do staying minorities that evade ethnic cleansing integrate into re-settled communities? After World War Two, three million ethnic Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland, but some were allowed to stay, many of them left-leaning anti-fascists. We study quasi-experimental...
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electorate composition on US congressional district boundaries and on political outcomes. We exploit the 1986 Immigration Reform … ardent supporters) into majority-minority districts. House delegations had more Hispanics suggesting that partisan …
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We study the extent and consequences of biases against immigrants exhibited by high school teachers in Finland. Compared to native students, immigrant students receive 0.06 standard deviation units lower scores from teachers than from blind graders. This effect is almost entirely driven by...
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Discrimination against minorities is pervasive in many societies, but little is known about minorities' strategies to … Georgian trustors discriminate against the ethnic Armenian minority group. We introduce an initial signaling stage to … investigate Armenians' willingness to hide their ethnicity to avoid expected discrimination. 43 percent of Armenian trustees …
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-based discrimination, both of which are costly and lead to lower payouts. In contrast, accurate statistical discrimination is ruled out by …
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ethnic identity on the immigrants’ employment outcomes. Using rich survey data from France and relying on a polychoric … design effective post-immigration policies. …
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concerns over the economic and cultural impact of immigration, and the rise of rightwing political parties in Europe. Empirical …With the rise of the far-right parties in the European parliamentary elections, concerns over immigration and national … identity have again come into the limelight. In this paper, we document the empirical relationships between immigration, native …
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