Arbeitspapier
Do Oppositional Identities Reduce Employment for Ethnic Minorities?
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 strong they are linked to their culture of origin, non-whites choose to adopt oppositional identities since some individuals may identify with the dominant culture (status seekers) and others may reject that culture (conformists), even if it implies adverse labor market outcomes. We then test this model using a unique data set that contains extensive information on various issues surrounding ethnic identity and preferences in Britain. We find that the social environment of individuals has a strong influence on their identity choice. We also find that those non-whites who have preferences that accord with being a conformist do experience an employment penalty.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IUI Working Paper ; No. 603
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
- Thema
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Ethnic Minorities
Identity
Social Networks
White's Norm
Ethnische Gruppe
Arbeitsuche
Arbeitsnachfrage
Kulturelle Identität
Theorie
Großbritannien
Soziales Netzwerk
Soziale Norm
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Battu, Harminder
Mwale, McDonald
Zenou, Yves
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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The Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IUI)
- (wo)
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Stockholm
- (wann)
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2003
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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20.09.2024, 08:20 MESZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Battu, Harminder
- Mwale, McDonald
- Zenou, Yves
- The Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IUI)
Entstanden
- 2003