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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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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 … suggested by the ethnosizer, a newly established measure to parameterize a person's ethnic identity, using individual … individuals end up varies among immigrants even from the same country. Moreover, the quest for ethnic identity affects women and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014202411
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Work and Money : Payoffs by Ethnic Identity and Gender
Constant, Amelie F. - 2009
Upon arrival in the host country, immigrants undergo a fundamental identity crisis. Their ethnic identity being … suggested by the ethnosizer, a newly established measure to parameterize a person's ethnic identity, using individual … individuals end up varies among immigrants even from the same country. Moreover, the quest for ethnic identity affects women and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158071
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Ethnic Minorities Saving in the UK : A Life-Cycle Analysis
Adami, Roberta - 2015
In this paper, we apply the life-cycle framework to study saving accumulation and de-cumulation among ethnic minorities in the UK. Our findings reflect large variations between ethnic groups in terms of socio-economic characteristics and saving accumulation during the working life as well as in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013018447
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Do Ethnic Minorities 'Stretch' Their Time? Evidence from the UK Time Use Survey
Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010
This paper investigates the effect of ethnicity on time spent on overlapped household production, work and leisure activities employing the 2000-2001 UK Time Use Survey. We find that, unconditionally, white females manage to "stretch" their time the most by an additional 233 minutes per day and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014193727
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Do Ethnic Minorities 'Stretch' Their Time? Evidence from the UK Time Use Survey
Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2010
This paper investigates the effect of ethnicity on time spent on overlapped household production, work and leisure activities employing the 2000-2001 UK Time Use Survey. We find that, unconditionally, white females manage to "stretch" their time the most by an additional 233 minutes per day and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144081
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Ethnic Minority Immigrants and Their Children in Britain
Dustmann, Christian - 2010
This paper investigates educational attainment and economic performance of ethnic minority immigrants and their children in Britain, in comparison to white British born. We find that ethnic minority immigrants and their children are on average better educated in comparison to their British born...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146242
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Ethnic drift and white flight : a gravity model of neighborhood formation
Bakens, Jessie; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Mulder, Peter - 2016
Ethnicity has become an increasingly important factor in neighborhood formation in many developed economies. We specify a gravity model for neighborhoods to assess the role of ethnicity in intra-urban residential relocations. Migration patterns of different ethnic groups are hypothesized to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523545
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Ethnic and racial disparities in saving behavior
Dal Borgo, Mariela - 2018
Using data of households approaching retirement in the U.S., I find that the Whites' median saving rates are 9 percentage points larger than the Mexican Americans' rates (ethnic gap) and than the African Americans' rates (racial gap). Two-thirds of each gap correspond to changes in asset prices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011771998
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Living apart together : the economic value of ethnic diversity in cities
Bakens, Jessie; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Groot, Henri … - 2018
In consumer cities, the presence and location of immigrants impacts house prices through two channels, which both can be valued positively as well as negatively: (i) their presence and contribution to population diversity and (ii) the creation of immigrant-induced consumer amenities like those...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011813388