Oppositional identities and employment for ethnic minorities: evidence from England

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Where a community or group is socially excluded from a dominant group, some individuals of that group may identify with the dominant culture and others may reject that culture. The aim of this paper is to investigate this issue by empirically analyzing the potential trade-off for ethnic minorities between sticking to their own roots and labour market success. We find that the social environment of individuals and attachments to culture of origin has a strong association with identity choice. Our results also suggest that those non-whites who have preferences that accord with being oppositional do experience an employment penalty.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 4517

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
• Subject: Ethnic minorities ; identity ; social networks ; white's norm ; Ethnische Gruppe ; Persönlichkeitspsychologie ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Berufliche Integration ; Farbige Bevölkerung ; Großbritannien

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Battu, Harminder ; Zenou, Yves
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2009

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/36059
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-20091105886
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET