Economic and social theorists have modeled race and ethnicity as a form of personal identity produced in recognition of … race and ethnicity is potentially endogenous because racial and ethnic identities are fluid. We look at the free African … race individuals then choose whether or not to adopt that mulatto identity. Adopting a mulatto identity generates pecuniary …

Economic and social theorists have modeled race and ethnicity as a form of personal identity produced in recognition of … race and ethnicity is potentially endogenous because racial and ethnic identities are fluid. We look at the free African … race individuals then choose whether or not to adopt that mulatto identity. Adopting a mulatto identity generates pecuniary …

, racial income disparities, and segregation. The use of race as a signal arises here, as in models of statistical … transactions, racial signaling can emerge with only minimal assumptions about the ex ante importance of race. In a search framework …

Empirical evidence illustrates that diversity generates both economic costs and benefits. This paper develops a … demonstrates that the direct effects of diversity can be positive or negative, and depend upon the size of fixed parameter values …. Second, diversity also influences individuals' location decisions. Segregation (variation of diversity across regions) always …

areas of development of future research in the field. -- migration ; self-employment ; ethnic entrepreneurship ; middleman …

We study entrepreneurs’ behavioral responses of effort (moral hazard) to avoid business failure.This is done in the …