Arbeitspapier

Racial harassment, ethnic concentration and economic conditions

In this paper, we analyse the association between spatial concentration of ethnic minorities, and racial harassment. Ethnic concentration relates to racial harassment through at least three channels: hostility in attitudes of majority individuals that find expression in harassment behaviour, the probability of minority individuals meeting majority individuals, and the cost of expressing hostility aggressively. Harassment can thus not simply be modeled as a stronger form of hostility. Using unique data for Britain, we show that, in area of higher local ethnic concentration, experience of harassment is lower, even though hostility on the side of the majority population is not.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 4885

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics
Thema
Economics of minorities
interracial relations
Ethnische Diskriminierung
Ethnische Beziehungen
Ethnische Gruppe
Segregation
Regionale Konzentration
Großbritannien

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Dustmann, Christian
Fabbri, Francesca
Preston, Ian
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2010

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Dustmann, Christian
  • Fabbri, Francesca
  • Preston, Ian
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2010

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