Arbeitspapier
Oppositional Identities and the Labor Market
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 peer pressures are, non-whites choose to adopt oppositional identities since some individuals may identify with the dominant culture and others may reject that culture, even if it implies adverse labor market outcomes.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IUI Working Paper ; No. 649
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Sociology of Economics
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
- Subject
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Ethnic Minorities
Identity
Social Networks
White's Norm
Multiple Equilibria
Farbige Bevölkerung
Arbeitsplatzsuchmodell
Arbeitsmarktsegmentierung
Theorie
Soziales Netzwerk
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Battu, Harminder
Mwale, McDonald
Zenou, Yves
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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The Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IUI)
- (where)
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Stockholm
- (when)
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2005
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Battu, Harminder
- Mwale, McDonald
- Zenou, Yves
- The Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IUI)
Time of origin
- 2005
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