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Do Minorities Misrepresent Their Ethnicity to Avoid Discrimination?

Kudashvili, Nikoloz - 2019

Discrimination against minorities is pervasive in many societies, but little is known about minorities' strategies to avoid being discriminated against. In our trust game among 758 high-school students in the country of Georgia, ethnic Georgian trustors discriminate against the ethnic Armenian...

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Ethnic Identity and the Employment Outcomes of Immigrants : Evidence from France

Delaporte, Isaure - 2019

The objective of this paper is twofold: first, to determine the immigrants' ethnic identity, i.e. the degree of … ethnic identity on the immigrants' employment outcomes. Using rich survey data from France and relying on a polychoric … principal component analysis, this paper proposes two richer measures of ethnic identity than the ones used in the literature …

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Ethnofederalism and Ethnic Voting

Bluhm, Richard; Hodler, Roland; Schaudt, Paul - 2021

We investigate how changes in the administrative-territorial structure affect ethnic voting. We present an event study design that exploits the 2010 constitutional reform in Kenya, which substantially increased the number of primary administrative regions. We find (i) strong evidence for a...

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Forced Migration, Staying Minorities, and New Societies : Evidence from Post-War Czechoslovakia

Grossmann, Jakub; Jurajda, Stepan; Roesel, Felix - 2021

identity supplanted German ethnic identity among stayers who faced new local ethnic majorities …

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Ethnic differences in the labour market : a comparison of the samples of anonymized records and Labour Force Survey

Heath, Anthony F.; McMahon, Dorren; Roberts, Jane - In: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 163 (2000) 3, pp. 341-361

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Assassing und understanding the educational progress of children from different ethnic groups

Plewis, Jan - In: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 151 (1988) 2, pp. 316-326

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Migration and Cultural Change

Rapoport, Hillel - 2020

We examine both theoretically and empirically how migration affects cultural change in home and host countries. Our theoretical model integrates various compositional and cultural transmission mechanisms of migration-based cultural change for which it delivers distinctive testable predictions on...

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Ethnicity and Tax Filing Behavior

Bastani, Spencer - 2019

We analyze differences in tax filing behavior between natives and immigrants using population-wide Swedish administrative data, focusing on two empirical examples. First, controlling for a rich set of variables, we compare deduction behavior of immigrants and natives with the same commuting...

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Trust, Ethnic Diversity, and Personal Contact : A Field Experiment

Finseraas, Henning - 2019

We study how close personal contact with minorities affects in-group and out-group trust in a field experiment in the armed forces. Soldiers are randomly assigned to rooms with or without ethnic minorities. At the end of the recruit period, we measure trust by using a trust game. Results...

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Measuring Ethnic Stratification and its Effect on Trust in Africa

Hodler, Roland - 2019

We define and axiomatically characterize an index of ethnic stratification that measures the extent to which the hierarchy in socio-economic positions across the individuals of a society follows ethnolinguistic lines. This index generalizes the idea of between-group inequality to situations...

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