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Modelling Exposure to Risk of Experiencing Discrimination in the Context of Endogenous Ethnic Identification

Hunter, Boyd; Howlett, Monica; Biddle, Nicholas - 2014

Gneezy et al. (2012) uses attribution theory from the psychology literature to argue that when the object of discrimination is a matter of choice (e.g. sexual orientation), observed discrimination may motivated by animus, which exacerbates or intensifies the emotional response to the object of...

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Modelling Exposure to Risk of Experiencing Discrimination in the Context of Endogenous Ethnic Identification

Hunter, Boyd; Howlett, Monica; Biddle, Nicholas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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Does city Structure affect the labor market outcomes of black workers?

Selod, Harris; Zenou, Yves - 2003

In this paper, location choices are driven by households (both blacks and whites) consciously choosing to trade off proximity to neighbors of similar racial backgrounds for proximity to jobs. Because of coordination failures in the location choices, multiple urban equilibria emerge. There is a...

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Labor Market Incorporation of Immigrants in Japan and the United States: A Comparative Analysis

Cornelius, Wayne A.; Tsuda, Takeyuki - 2002

The most commonly used model of labor market incorporation among immigrants in the United States analyzes their earnings largely as a function of human capital variables such as education, language competence, age, length of residence and employment experience in the receiving country. However,...

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Immigrant self-employment: does intermarriage matter?

Georgarakos, Dimitris; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2009

This paper investigates the effect of a native spouse on the transitions into and out of entrepreneurship of male immigrants in the U.S. We find that those married to a native are less likely to start up a business compared to those married to an immigrant. This finding is robust when the...

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The effect of ethnic identity on the employment of immigrants

Drydakis, Nick - 2012

This study evaluates the effect of ethnic identity on the employment level of immigrants in Greece. Treating ethnic … identity as a composite of key cultural elements the estimations suggest that employment is positively associated with … by setting up hypotheses, and directly measuring immigrants' ethnic identity commitments. The current results have …

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Moving to segregation: Evidence from 8 Italian cities

Boeri, Tito; de Philippis, Marta; Patacchini, Eleonora; … - 2012

We use a new dataset and a novel identification strategy to analyze the effects of residential segregation on the employment of migrants in 8 Italian cities. Our data, which are representative of the population of both legal and illegal migrants, allow us to measure segregation at the very local...

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Work and money: payoffs by ethnic identity and gender

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

Upon arrival in the host country, immigrants undergo a fundamental identity crisis. Their ethnic identity being … by the ethnosizer, a newly established measure to parameterize a person's ethnic identity, using individual information … individuals end up varies among immigrants even from the same country. Moreover, the quest for ethnic identity affects women and …

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The Determination of a Migration Wave Using Ethnicity and Community Ties

Locher, Lilo - 2001

If people come to live in a country different from their nation state, due to border shifts, expulsion, or migration, they adopt some of the new country?s habits after some time. This paper investigates their (return) migration decision when they have been restricted to live in the foreign...

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Immigration, obesity and labor market outcomes in the UK

Averett, Susan; Argys, Laura; Kohn, Jennifer L. - 2012

We estimate the dual effects of immigration and obesity on labor market outcomes in the UK. There is only one other paper that has estimated these dual effects on a sample of immigrants to the US. We use the British Household Panel Survey, which contains information on height and weight for 2004...

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