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Market segregation in the presence of customer discrimination
Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2023
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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Market segregation in the presence of customer discrimination
Amegashie, J. Atsu - In: Journal of behavioral and experimental economics 105 (2023), pp. 1-6
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An Empirical Analysis of Income Inequality between a Minority and the Majority in Urban China: The Case of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
Shi, Li; Sai, Ding - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2009
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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Two faces of the ICT revolution: desegregation and minority-majority earnings inequality
Kahanec, Martin - 2005
) 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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Two Faces of the ICT Revolution: Desegregation and Minority-Majority Earnings Inequality
Kahanec, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
) 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566706
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Bend it like Beckham : ethnic identity and integration
Bisin, Alberto; Patacchini, Eleonora; Verdier, Thierry; … - 2010
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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Bend it Like Beckham : Ethnic Identity and Integration
Bisin, Alberto - 2010
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
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Chapter 37 Some Fun, Thirty-Five Years Ago
Schelling, Thomas C. - In: Handbook of computational economics : volume 2, …, (pp. 1639-1644). 2006
A pencil-and-paper experiment with spacial segregation leads to some general phenomena of spatial organization. …
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American idol: evidence of same-race preferences?
Lee, Jungmin - 2006
This study examines whether viewers of the popular television show, American Idol, are racially biased. I find strong evidence for same-race preferences, in particular among black viewers. Featuring more black contestants attracts more black households to tune in to watch the show. And, with...
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Are NBA Fans Becoming Indifferent to Race? Evidence from the 1990s
Burdekin, Richard C.K.; Hossfeld, Richard T.; Smith, … - Economics Department, Claremont McKenna College - 2002
racial composition of the metropolitan markets in which the teams are located. Researchers have interpreted this evidence as …
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