Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/67148 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6953
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We analyze the assimilation patterns of Muslim immigrants in Western countries with a unique identification strategy. Survey and experimental data collected in France in 2009 reveal that Muslims and rooted French are locked in a sub-optimal equilibrium whereby (i) rooted French exhibit taste-based discrimination against those they are able to identify as Muslims and (ii) Muslims perceive French institutions as systematically discriminatory against them. This equilibrium is sustained because Muslims, perceiving discrimination as institutionalized, are reluctant to assimilate and rooted French, who are able to identify Muslims as such due to their lower assimilation, reveal their distaste for Muslims.
Subjects: 
assimilation
Muslim and Christian immigrants
discrimination
France
JEL: 
C90
D03
J15
J71
Z12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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