Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/141490 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 9731
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We model simultaneous inter and within identity-group conflict in two territories connected by cross-territorial spill-overs. Within each territory, two groups contest the division of a group-specific public good, and all members contest the division of group income. Each group has a cross-border affiliate. Greater success (share) of its affiliate 'spills over' into higher efficiency of a group in inter-group conflict. We find that inter-group and total conflict move together within a territory, while within-group conflict and output move in the opposite direction. A unilateral increase in cross-border spill-over reduces inter-group conflict in the source territory but increases it in the destination; an equi-proportionate bilateral increase affects conflict in a non-monotone manner. Population increase in a territory, a larger minority, weaker property rights, higher relative labour productivity of the majority, may all increase inter-group conflict in the other territory. Community-neutral growth in labour productivity within a territory reduces inter-group conflict therein.
Subjects: 
ethnic conflict
identity
simultaneous between and within group contest
cross-border spillover
globalization
ethnic polarization
community-biased growth
JEL: 
D72
D74
O10
O20
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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