Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/36059 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4517
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Where a community or group is socially excluded from a dominant group, some individuals of that group may identify with the dominant culture and others may reject that culture. The aim of this paper is to investigate this issue by empirically analyzing the potential trade-off for ethnic minorities between sticking to their own roots and labour market success. We find that the social environment of individuals and attachments to culture of origin has a strong association with identity choice. Our results also suggest that those non-whites who have preferences that accord with being oppositional do experience an employment penalty.
Subjects: 
Ethnic minorities
identity
social networks
white's norm
JEL: 
J15
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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