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Partner ethnicity and ethnic minority socio-economic occupation evidence from the UK

Morando, Greta - 2014

What role does integration play in reducing disparities in the labour market between ethnic minority and white majority populations? We shed light on this question by comparing the socio-economic positions of ethnic minorities in co- and inter-ethnic partnerships. We implement propensity score...

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Ethnic differences in realising desires to leave the neighbourhood

Boschman, Sanne; Kleinhans, Reinout; Ham, Maarten van - 2014

Selective mobility into and out of neighbourhoods is one of the driving forces of segregation. Empirical research has revealed who wants to leave certain types of neighbourhoods or who leaves certain neighbourhoods. A factor which has received little attention so far is that some residents will...

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Incentives to identify : racial identity in the age of affirmative action

Antman, Francisca M.; Duncan, Brian - 2014

broader trends in racial disparities, and the emerging literature on the construction of race and individual identity. …

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Incentives to identify: a comment

Antman, Francisca M.; Duncan, Brian - 2019

Antman and Duncan (2014, 2015) document how racial identity responds to state affirmative action policy. The main … contribution of our work was to show that racial identity responds to state affirmative action policy. A coding error was recently … identity responds to state affirmative action policy, albeit with a different conclusion for multiracial blacks, and are now …

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Who will be idol? The importance of social networks for winning on reality shows

Heizler, Odelia; Kimhi, Ayal - 2010

This paper examines, both theoretically and empirically, the effect of social networks and belonging to minority groups (or race) on the probability of winning in reality television shows. We develop a theoretical model that studies viewer behavior by presenting a framework of competition...

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Spatial versus social mismatch: The strength of weak ties

Zenou, Yves - 2011

The aim of this paper is to provide a new mechanism based on social interactions explaining why distance to jobs can have a negative impact on workers' labor-market outcomes, especially ethnic minorities. Building on Granovetter's idea that weak ties are superior to strong ties for providing...

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Random or referral hiring: When social connections matter

Nicodemo, Catia; Nicolini, Rosella - 2012

This study investigates the existence of hiring criteria associated with the degree of social connections between skill and low-skill workers. We provide evidence about to what extent managers rely on their social connections in recruiting low-skill workers rather than on random matching. As one...

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The effect of social networks on the economic outcomes of a disadvantaged group : evidence from tribal affiliations

Sin, Isabelle; Stillman, Steven - 2017

Minority groups in many countries, particularly indigenous populations, live in very segregated environments. Many social scientists believe that social networks create poverty traps in these types of segregated environments, with a lack of positive role models reinforcing a lack of good job...

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Car ownership and the Labor Market of Ethnic Minorities

Gautier, Pieter A.; Zenou, Yves - 2008

We show how small initial wealth differences between low skilled black and white workers can generate large differences in their labor-market outcomes. This even occurs in the absence of a taste for discrimination against blacks or exogenous differences in the distance to jobs. Because of the...

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Britishness and identity assimilation among the UK's minority and majority ethnic groups

Nandi, Alita; Platt, Lucinda - 2014

; but that that there are variations in identity acculturation across minority groups and by generation. We also show that …

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