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Do Oppositional Identities Reduce Employment for Ethnic Minorities?
Battu, Harminder; Mwale, McDonald; Zenou, Yves - 2021
unique data set that contains extensive information on various issues surrounding ethnic identity and preferences in Britain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320027
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In-group cooperation in a hostile environment : an economic perspective on some aspects of Jewish life in (pre-modern) diaspora
Rapoport, Hillel; Weiss, Avi - 2002
The demographic history of the Jews in the Middle Ages may be characterized by two main phenomena: i) a sharp drop in the number of Jews until the beginning of the modern period, due mainly to conversions; and, ii) early urbanization. Until now, these features have been analyzed as primarily...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411192
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Identity and redistribution
Lindqvist, Erik (contributor); Östling, Robert (contributor) - 2006 - Rev. August 28, 2009
This paper models the interaction between individuals' identity choices and redistribution. Both redistributive … policies and identity choices are endogenous, and there might be multiple equilibria. The model is applied to ethnicity and … poor to identify with their ethnic group and therefore favor lower taxes. -- Redistribution ; social identity ; income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003456071
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An economic model of friendship : homophily, minorities and segregation
Currarini, Sergio; Jackson, Matt O.; Pin, Paolo - 2007
We develop a model of friendship formation that sheds light on segregation patterns observed in social and economic networks. Individuals come in different types and have type-dependent benefits from friendships; we examine the properties of a steady-state equilibrium of a matching process of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003912120
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The determination of a migration wave using ethnicity and community ties
Locher, Lilo - 2001
If people come to live in a country different from their nation state, due to border shifts, expulsion, or migration, they adopt some of the new country's habits after some time. This paper investigates their (return) migration decision when they have been restricted to live in the foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403330
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Underrepresentation, quotas and quality : a dynamic argument for reform
Arve, Malin; Valasek, Justin - 2023
both the identity and perceived quality of their mentors (seniors). A preference for homophily results in the persistence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014282424
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Labor market integration of migrants : hidden costs and benefits in two-tier welfare states
König, Jan; Skupnik, Christoph - 2012
We apply a monopoly trade union model and analyze employment, wage and budgetary effects of (i) an inflow of migrant workers and (ii) an increase in the labor market participation rate of migrants. Per assumption, natives and migrants solely differ with respect to the level of benefit claims in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009510576
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Dynamics of employment assimilation
Akay, Alpaslan - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 13, pp. 1-22
This paper investigates the dynamics of immigrants' employment assimilation in comparison with the standard static assimilation model. When the effect of past employment experience on current employment possibilities differs between immigrants and natives, then the static assimilation model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011529032
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The economic determinants of ethnic assimilation
Chiswick, Carmel Ullman (contributor) - 2006
Expanding on the concept of ethnic human capital, the paper distinguishes between cultural assimilation compatible with persistent ethnic groups and assimilation through intermarriage and other mechanisms that blur distinctions and lead to the disappearance of ethnic identities. Economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003417590
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Ethnic competition and specialization
Kahanec, Martin (contributor) - 2007
Are ethnic specialization and thus a downward sloping labor demand curve fundamental features of labor market competition between ethnic groups? In a general equilibrium model, this paper argues that spillover effects in skill acquisition and social distances between ethnic groups engender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003586569