, in many African countries, unemployment rates are low and growth is seldom jobless. Regrettably, most of the poor work … long hours and cannot make ends meet while the violation of basic human rights is not uncommon. Again, youth unemployment …

Theoretical and empirical research points to potentially different patterns of labor recruitment and importance of …

-group inequality in an economy. When the members of a group believe that the quality of their social network will be better in the … time. Combining the Lifetime Network Externality, which operates during the labor market phase of a worker's career, with … a full dynamic picture of group inequality in an economy with multiple social groups. I define a notion of Network Trap …

minority labor to sell at a relatively lower wage in a region with higher percentage of minority people. The conditions under … the puzzling evidence that (i) minorities typically earn less than majorities and (ii) this earnings gap is increasing in … the relative size of a minority in a given region. In particular, I argue that inter-ethnic social distance disadvantages …

minority labor to sell at a relatively lower wage in a region with higher percentage of minority people. The conditions under … the puzzling evidence that (i) minorities typically earn less than majorities and (ii) this earnings gap is increasing in … the relative size of a minority in a given region. In particular, I argue that inter-ethnic social distance disadvantages …

sloping labor demand curve and explains why some ethnic groups earn more than others, ethnic minorities underperforming or …Are ethnic specialization and thus a downward sloping labor demand curve fundamental features of labor market …

conditions.Moreover, in this study I offer an answer why some minorities do better than majorities, why minority individuals tend …Empirical findings that minorities typically attain lower economic status than majorities and that relatively larger … minorities perform worse than smaller ones pose a challenge to economics.To explain this scale puzzle, I model an economy where …

Right-wing extremism is a serious problem in many societies. A prominent hypothesis states that unemployment plays a … fact a significant positive relation between unemployment and rightwing criminal activities. We show further that the big … difference in right-wing crime between East and West German states can mostly be attributed to differences in unemployment. This …