Using data of households approaching retirement in the U.S., I perform quantile decompositions of the Whites' differences in saving rates with Mexican Americans (ethnic gap) and with African Americans (racial gap). The gaps are small at the bottom half of the distribution and widen at the top,...

A large body of research documents the existence of discrimination against migrants and ethnic minorities in the labour market. This study investigates for Austria, to what degree employment discrimination against ethnic minorities is mitigated, when they abstain from following the Austrian norm...

In November 2020, The New York Times asked fifteen on its columnists to 'explain what the past four years have cost America.' Not one of the columnists focused on President Trump's racism. This book seeks to redress this imbalance and bring Black Americans' role in our economy to the forefront....

Racial appeals have long been recognized as potent campaign tactics that mobilize white voters to the polls. Yet most studies that test the viability of racial appeals use blacks as the target group. However, in an increasingly diversifying society in which political elites now target a variety...