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Oppositional identities and employment for ethnic minorities : evidence from England
Battu, Harminder; Zenou, Yves - 2009
that the social environment of individuals and attachments to culture of origin has a strong association with identity … experience an employment penalty. -- Ethnic minorities ; identity ; social networks ; white's norm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003904968
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154999
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Chapter 9. Neighborhood and Network Effects
Topa, Giorgio; Zenou, Yves - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 5, (pp. 561-624). 2015
In this chapter, we provide an overview of research on neighborhoods and social networks and their role in shaping behavior and economic outcomes. We include a discussion of empirical and theoretical analyses of the role of neighborhoods and social networks in crime, education, and labor-market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025310
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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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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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Assimilation patterns in cities
Satō, Yasuhiro; Zenou, Yves - 2019 - revised November 5, 2019
We develop a model in which ethnic minorities can either assimilate to the majority's norm or reject it by trading off higher productivity and wages with a greater social distance to their culture of origin. We show that "oppositional" ethnic minorities reside in more segregated areas, have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012133037
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Assimilation patterns in cities
Satō, Yasuhiro; Zenou, Yves - 2019
We develop a model in which ethnic minorities can either assimilate to the majority's norm or reject it by trading off higher productivity and wages with a greater social distance to their culture of origin. We show that "oppositional" ethnic minorities reside in more segregated areas, have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012133890
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Native-immigrant gaps in educational and school-to-work transitions in the second generation : the role of gender and ethnicity
Baert, Stijn; Heiland, Frank; Korenman, Sanders - 2014
We study how native-immigrant (second generation) differences in educational trajectories and school-to-work transitions vary by gender. Using longitudinal Belgian data and adjusting for family background and educational sorting, we find that both male and female second-generation immigrants,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010463408
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Ethnic employment gaps of graduates in the Netherlands
Bisschop, Paul; Weel, Bas ter; Zwetsloot, Jelle - 2020
This research documents ethnic employment gaps for labour-market entrants in the Netherlands in the period 2006-2016. We compare short-term and long-term differences in employment of Dutch graduates with graduates from Moroccan, Turkish, Antillean and Surinamese origin and other (non-)western...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012295193
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Ethnic employment gaps of graduates in the Netherlands
Bisschop, Paul; Weel, Bas ter; Zwetsloot, Jelle - 2020
This research documents ethnic employment gaps for labour-market entrants in the Netherlands in the period 2006-2016. We compare short-term and long-term differences in employment of Dutch graduates with graduates from Moroccan, Turkish, Antillean and Surinamese origin and other (non-)western...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012427686