Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/36813 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4885
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In this paper, we analyse the association between spatial concentration of ethnic minorities, and racial harassment. Ethnic concentration relates to racial harassment through at least three channels: hostility in attitudes of majority individuals that find expression in harassment behaviour, the probability of minority individuals meeting majority individuals, and the cost of expressing hostility aggressively. Harassment can thus not simply be modeled as a stronger form of hostility. Using unique data for Britain, we show that, in area of higher local ethnic concentration, experience of harassment is lower, even though hostility on the side of the majority population is not.
Subjects: 
Economics of minorities
interracial relations
JEL: 
J15
R23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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