Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/33229 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1852
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
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, nonwhites 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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