Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/81278 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
IUI Working Paper No. 649
Publisher: 
The Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IUI), Stockholm
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
Ethnic Minorities
Identity
Social Networks
White's Norm
Multiple Equilibria
JEL: 
A14
J15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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