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Oppositional Identities and the Labor Market
Battu, Harminder; Mwale, McDonald; Zenou, Yves - 2005
We develop a model in which non-white individuals are defined with respect to their social environment (family, friends, neighbors) and their attachments to their culture of origin (religion, language), and in which jobs are mainly found through social networks. We find that, depending on how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320159
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Oppositional Identities and the Labor Market
Battu, Harminder; Mwale, McDonald; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2005
We develop a model in which non-white individuals are defined with respect to their social environment (family, friends, neighbors) and their attachments to their culture of origin (religion, language), and in which jobs are mainly found through social networks. We find that, depending on how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645292
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Waiting for Mestizaje to come
Unzueta, Ana Velasco - 2012
The aim of this study is to analyze the influence of the political discourse in the construction of racial identities in the city of La Paz. Focusing on the debate generated about the Law against Racial Discrimination and all kinds of Discrimination, approved in October of 2010 as a case study,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210845
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Choosing `Me' and `My Friends': Identity in a Non-Cooperative Network Formation Game with Cost Sharing
Dev, Pritha - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper introduces the choice of identity characteristics, and, commitments to these characteristics, in a network … (increasing) in commitments for same (different) identity. We study conditions under which these choices allow for networks with … multiple identities. We find that whether the choice of identity itself gives any utility or not, there will be Nash networks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529318
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Identity and Fragmentation in Networks
Dev, Pritha - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper looks at the role of identity in the fragmentation of networks by incorporating the choice of commitment to … identity characteristics, into a noncooperative network formation game. The Nash network will feature divisions based on … identity, moreover, it will have layers of such divisions. Using the renement of strictness, I get stars of highly committed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529325
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Do Oppositional Identities Reduce Employment for Ethnic Minorities?
Battu, Harminder; Mwale, McDonald; Zenou, Yves - 2003
contains extensive information on various issues surrounding ethnic identity and preferences in Britain. We find that the … social environment of individuals has a strong influence on their identity choice. We also find that those non-whites who …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320035
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Assimilation patterns in cities
Sato, 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/10012145528
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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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Do Oppositional Identities Reduce Employment for Ethnic Minorities?
Battu, Harminder; Mwale, McDonald; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2003
contains extensive information on various issues surrounding ethnic identity and preferences in Britain. We find that the … social environment of individuals has a strong influence on their identity choice. We also find that those non-whites who …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207065
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Individual Determinants of Ethnic Identification
Bossuroy, Thomas - DIAL - 2011
This paper examines the individual incentives to identify to one's ethnic group rather than to the nation, based on large sample surveys representative of seven capitals of West-African countries. Three main driving forces stand out. First, we show that education brings down ethnic salience at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293895