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| Title: | | Oppositional identities and employment for ethnic minorities: evidence from England  |
| Authors: | | Battu, Harminder Zenou, Yves |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion Papers 4517 |
| Abstract: | | 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. |
| Subjects: | | Ethnic minorities identity social networks white's norm |
| JEL: | | J15 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-20091105886 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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