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sexist) majority group of customers. There exists a Nash equilibrium with full segregation in which a low-price firm serves … only the minority and a high-price firm serves only the majority. There is also a partial-integration equilibrium in which … a high-price firm serves only the majority while a low-price firm serves both the minority and majority. Paradoxically …
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Based on the urban survey data of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in 2006, this paper studies the impact of ethnic characteristics on the income determination mechanism in the same economic region. Using the decomposition methods of Blinder and Oaxaca, Fields, and Morduch and Sicular, we analyze...
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) affects socio-economic outcomes. In the context of minority-majority relations, social distances and segregation determine the … integrated social networks and that of majority individuals, thereby causing desegregation and increasing interethnic earnings …. Furthermore, I establish that there is a threshold level of ICT below which all minority individuals prefer segregated …
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We develop a model of friendship formation that sheds light on segregation patterns observed in social and economic …
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We propose a theoretical framework to study the determinants of ethnic and religious identity along two distinct motivational processes which have been proposed in the social sciences: cultural conformity and cultural distinction. Under cultural conformity, ethnic identity is reduced by...
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segregation, in 100 Hungarian towns. We combine administrative data with data from a survey that we collected from municipality … heterogeneity across towns. The more segregationist the local policies are, the higher the segregation in the town, thus suggesting … that local policies have room to influence school segregation in this system. However, the impact of local educational …
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We propose a theoretical framework to study the determinants of ethnic and religious identity along two distinct motivational processes which have been proposed in the social sciences: cultural conformity and cultural distinction. Under cultural conformity, ethnic identity is reduced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136952
Each worker belongs to either the majority or the minority group and, irrespective of the group she belongs to, can … affecting majority workers whereas integration is beneficial to minority workers but detrimental to workers from the majority … segregated society, we show that, if a high enough proportion of employers have taste-based prejudices against minority workers …
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) affects socio-economic outcomes. In the context of minority-majority relations, social distances and segregation determine the … integrated social networks and that of majority individuals, thereby causing desegregation and increasing interethnic earnings …. Furthermore, I establish that there is a threshold level of ICT below which all minority individuals prefer segregated …
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