Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/270607 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 1255
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen
Abstract: 
We investigate experimentally the effects of information about native/immigrant identity, and the ability to communicate a self-chosen personal characteristic towards the rival on conflict behavior. In a two-player individual contest with British and Immigrant subjects in the UK we find that neither information about identity nor communicating self-characteristics significantly affect the average level of conflict. Both of those, however, significantly affect players' strategies, in the sense of the extent they involve conflict over time. Overall, the results indicate that inter-personal communication may help to mitigate high intensity conflicts when the identities are common knowledge among rivals.
Subjects: 
Conflict
Experiment
Identity
Immigrant
Communication
JEL: 
C72
C91
D72
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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