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Economic well-being and anti-semitic, xenophobic, and racist attitudes in Germany
Mocan, Naci; Raschke, Christian - 2014
. Education, and having contact with foreigners mitigate racist, anti-Semitic and xenophobic feelings. People who live in states … consistent with the model of Glaeser (2005) on hate, and with that of Akerlof and Kranton (2000, 2005) on identity in the utility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010345536
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Jailer of freedom and enemy of growth? : the role of personal and social identities in educational choices
Autiero, Giuseppina; O'Higgins, Shane Niall - 2013
This paper develops a theoretical and empirical model on the influence of identity on educational choices which extends …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224586
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Assimilation, criminality and ethnic conflict
Dasgupta, Indraneel; Mukherjee, Diganta - 2014
We examine the consequences, of integrating large minorities into productivity-relevant majority ethno-linguistic norms, 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)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010239273
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Modelling exposure to risk of experiencing discrimination in the context of endogenous ethnic identification
Hunter, Boyd H.; 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010258176
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Please call me John : name choice and the assimilation of immigrants in the United States, 1900-1930
Carneiro, Pedro; Lee, Sokbae; Reis, Hugo - 2016
The vast majority of immigrants to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century adopted first names that were common among natives. The rate of adoption of an American name increases with time in the US, although most immigrants adopt an American name within the first year of arrival....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454305
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Ethnic attrition and the observed health of later-generation Mexican Americans
Antman, Francisca M.; Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2016
Numerous studies find that U.S.-born Hispanics differ significantly from non-Hispanic whites on important measures of human capital, including health. Nevertheless, almost all studies rely on subjective measures of ethnic self-identification to identify immigrants' U.S.-born descendants. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517177
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Ethnic identity and work
Constant, Amelie - 2014
remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic … identity is a major issue; even more challenging is to measure its impact on economic outcomes such as the probability to work … or the earnings of immigrants. The thin but burgeoning theoretical and empirical literature shows that ethnic identity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418958
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Bread and bullets
Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016
Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452045
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Identity-driven cooperation versus competition
Snower, Dennis J.; Bosworth, Steven - 2016
This paper seeks to extend the domain of identity economics by exploring motivational foundations of in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452091
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Identity conflict with cross-border spillovers
Bakshi, Dripto; Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2016
We model simultaneous inter and within identity-group conflict in two territories connected by cross-territorial spill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452385