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Gender Inequality and Caste : Field Experimental Evidence from India
Islam, Asad; Pakrashi, Debayan; Sahoo, Soubhagya; Wang, … - 2022
gender but with different castes and years of experience, we show that the differences in patients' physician choices are … consistent with gender-based statistical discrimination. Labor market experience cannot easily overcome the discrimination that … female doctors suffer. Further, we find that gender discrimination is greater for lower caste doctors, who typically suffer …
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Bend it like Beckham : ethnic identity and integration
Bisin, Alberto; Patacchini, Eleonora; Verdier, Thierry; … - 2010
heritage the more integrated are the neighborhoods where they reside and work. Data on ethnic preferences and attitudes …. -- ethnicity ; identity ; intermarriage ; cultural transmission …
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Bend it Like Beckham : Ethnic Identity and Integration
Bisin, Alberto - 2010
heritage the more integrated are the neighborhoods where they reside and work. Data on ethnic preferences and attitudes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136952
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Do Oppositional Identities Reduce Employment for Ethnic Minorities?
Battu, Harminder; Mwale, McDonald; Zenou, Yves - 2021
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 found that, depending on how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320027
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The role of social networks in cultural assimilation
Verdier, Thierry; Zenou, Yves - 2015
We develop a model where, in the first stage, minority individuals have to decide whether or not they want to assimilate to the majority culture while, in the second stage, all individuals (both from the majority and the minority group) embedded in a network have to decide how much effort they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336962
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Conformism, Social Norms and the Dynamics of Assimilation
Olcina, Gonzalo - 2018
We consider a model where each individual (or ethnic minority) is embedded in a network of relation-ships and decides whether or not she wants to be assimilated to the majority norm. Each individual wants her behavior to agree with her personal ideal action or norm but also wants her behavior to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922451
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Assimilation patterns in cities
Satō, Yasuhiro; Zenou, Yves - 2019 - revised November 5, 2019
We develop a model in which ethnic minorities can either assimilate to the majority's norm or reject it by trading off higher productivity and wages with a greater social distance to their culture of origin. We show that "oppositional" ethnic minorities reside in more segregated areas, have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012133037
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Assimilation patterns in cities
Satō, Yasuhiro; Zenou, Yves - 2019
We develop a model in which ethnic minorities can either assimilate to the majority's norm or reject it by trading off higher productivity and wages with a greater social distance to their culture of origin. We show that "oppositional" ethnic minorities reside in more segregated areas, have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012133890
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Conformism, social norms and the dynamics of assimilation
Olcina Vauteren, Gonzalo; Panebianco, Fabrizio; Zenou, Yves - 2018
We consider a model where each individual (or ethnic minority) is embedded in a network of relation-ships and decides whether or not she wants to be assimilated to the majority norm. Each individual wants her behavior to agree with her personal ideal action or norm but also wants her behavior to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011821187
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Intergenerational Assimilation of Minorities : The Role of the Majority Group
Itoh, Ryo; Sato, Yasuhiro; Zenou, Yves - 2022
We develop a dynamic model of assimilation of ethnic minorities that posits a tradeoff between higher productivity and wages and greater social distance to the culture of origin. We alsohighlight the importance of the assimilation of the past generation and the role of the majoritygroup in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013310085