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High Relocation Costs in Search-Matching Models : Theory and Application to Spatial Mismatch
Zenou, Yves - 2021
We develop a standard search-matching model in which mobility costs are so high that it is too costly for workers to relocate when a change in their employment status occurs. We show that, in equilibrium, wages increase with distance to jobs and commuting costs because firms need to compensate...
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Conformism, Social Norms and the Dynamics of Assimilation
Olcina, Gonzalo - 2018
We consider a model where each individual (or ethnic minority) is embedded in a network of relation-ships and decides whether or not she wants to be assimilated to the majority norm. Each individual wants her behavior to agree with her personal ideal action or norm but also wants her behavior to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922451
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Does Labor Market Tightness Affect Ethnic Discrimination in Hiring?
Carlsson, Magnus - 2018
Several studies using observational data suggest that ethnic discrimination increases in downturns of the economy. We investigate whether ethnic discrimination depends on labor market tightness using data from correspondence studies. We utilize three correspondence studies of the Swedish labor...
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Oppositional Identities and Employment for Ethnic Minorities : Evidence from England
Battu, Harminder - 2009
that the social environment of individuals and attachments to culture of origin has a strong association with identity …
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Social Determinants of Labor Market Status of Ethnic Minorities in Britain
Kahanec, Martin; Mendola, Mariapia - 2021
The labor market outcomes of ethnic minorities in advanced societies and their dependence on social relationships and membership in social networks are important empirical issues with significant policy consequences. We use detailed micro-data on multiple-origin ethnic minorities in England and...
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Social Norms in Networks
Ushchev, Philip - 2019
Although the linear-in-means model is the workhorse model in empirical work on peer effects, its theoretical properties are understudied. In this study, we develop a social-norm model that provides a microfoundation of the linear-in-means model and investigate its properties. We show that...
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Ethnicity, Job Search and Labor Market Reintegration of the Unemployed
Constant, Amelie F. - 2009
ethnic identity: the ethnosizer. To shed further light on the native-migrant differences in economic outcomes, we investigate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152952
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Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity
Bonin, Holger - 2007
The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of immigrants' ethnic persistence and assimilation....
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Parental Ethnic Identity and Child Development
Campbell, Stuart - 2019
We examine the relationship between parental ethnic identity and cognitive development in ethnic minority children …. This aspect of parental identity may shape children's cognitive outcomes through a direct influence on parenting behaviour …, we find a negative association between maternal majority identity and children's cognitive test scores. This result is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870467
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Ethnic Identity and Work
Constant, Amelie F. - 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 …
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