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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 …

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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...

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Do Oppositional Identities Reduce Employment for Ethnic Minorities?

Battu, Harminder; Mwale, MacDonald; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

unique data-set that contains extensive information on various issues surrounding ethnic identity and preferences in Britain … oppositional identity? Second, what are the consequences for employment and is there an employment penalty for those who possess an … oppositional identity? We find that indeed the social environment of individuals has a strong influence on their identity choice …

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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...

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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 …

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Racial identity and education

Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2006

identity issues. We find that having a higher percentage of same-race friends has a positive effect of white teenagers' test … friends (which is a measure of own identity) and the parent's education that are responsible for the difference in education …

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Oppositional Identities and the Labor Market

Battu, Harminder; Mwale, McDonald; Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...

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Oppositional Identities and Employment for Ethnic Minorities: Evidence from England

Battu, Harminder; Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10008527303

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...

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Assimilation patterns in cities

Satō, Yasuhiro; Zenou, Yves - 2019

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