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same period and have remained constant over the sample period. Most of the race-based occupational segregation is a result … sector of work and facing a large institutionalized pay difference. This raises the question whether segregation and … historical wage gaps still exist and are affected by the government in power. Therefore, this study provides evidence of race …
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Existing studies of trust formation in U.S. metropolitan areas have found that trust is lower when there is more income inequality and greater racial fragmentation. I add to this literature by examining the role of income inequality between racial groups (racial income inequality). I find that...
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productivity growth. This paper offers a quantitative study on the link between uncertainty and low productivity growth. Firstly … Recession. Secondly, to investigate the effect of uncertainty on productivity growth dynamics, I present a novel general … productivity growth when accounting for the empirical discrepancy between the realised and expected changes to the second-moment of …
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What makes diversity unifying in some settings but divisive in others? We examine how the mixing of ethnic groups in German schools affects intergroup cooperation and trust. We leverage the quasi-random assignment of students to classrooms within schools to obtain variation in the type of...
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We analyse interethnic cooperation in an infinitely repeated prisoner’s dilemma when members of one group are unable to target punishment towards individual defectors from the other group. We first show that indiscriminate outgroup punishment may sustain cooperation in this setting. Our main...
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This chapter examines socioeconomic inequality in Latin America through the lens of race and ethnicity. We primarily … measures of race and ethnicity, we also draw on two additional measures from the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP …
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