Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35842 
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Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4356
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
I examine whether after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 Muslim immigrants and immigrants who fit the Muslim Arab stereotype in Australia perceive a greater increase in religious and racial intolerance and discrimination compared to other immigrant groups. I also examine whether there is a differential change in their labor market outcomes. I find that after 9/11 there is a greater increase in the likelihood of Muslim men and of those who look like Muslims to report a lot of religious and racial intolerance and discrimination relative to other immigrants. Further, I do not find evidence that after 9/11 Muslims or their stereotypes show a differential change in the likelihood of looking for a new main job or of being employed. There is also no evidence of a differential change in hours worked or in wage incomes. This suggests that the Australian labor market did not react to attitudinal changes in society, at least in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.
Subjects: 
Discrimination
immigrants
September 2001
9/11
JEL: 
J61
J71
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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