The unemployment rate in France is roughly 6 percentage points higher for African immigrants than for natives. In the US the unemployment rate is approximately 9 percentage points higher for blacks than for whites. Commute time data indicates that minorities face longer commute times to work,...

Becker's model (1957) explains how the distribution of prejudice among the majority leads to discrimination of the minorities. On the other hand, a more recent line of research suggests that the role of taste is marginal, discrimination being a rational answer to ex ante beliefs in minorities'...

This paper describes a novel concept of customer discrimination in the housing market, neighbor discrimination. We build up a matching model with ethnic externalities where landlords differ in the number of apartments they own within the same building. Larger landlords discriminate more often...