Oppositional Identities and Employment for Ethnic Minorities: Evidence from England

By H. Battu, Yves Zenou. Social Science Research Network, 2010

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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.

Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Ethnic Identity and Labor-Market Outcomes of Immigrants in Europe (2011, unknown): “For example, Bisin et al. (2008) as well as Battu and Zenou (2010) use the UK Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities (FNSEM) collected in 1993/94 by the Policy Studies Institute (PSI), which deliberately over-samples ethnic groups and contains extensive information on various issues…”
Backlash: The Unintended Effects of Language Prohibition in U.S. Schools after World War I (2019, background): “…(Biavaschi, Giulietti and Siddique, 2017) — indicate that, notwithstanding the possibility of immigrants’ self-selection, assimilation entails a premium in the labor market.29 Conversely, it is conceivable that strongly adhering to one’s own ethnicity implies a cost (Battu and Zenou, 2010).”
Don't stand so close to me: The urban impact of immigration (2012, background): “20 According to Battu and Zenou (2010), residential segregation plays a crucial role for ethnic identity.”
Immigrants’ Identity, Economic Outcomes and the Transmission of Identity across Generations (2010, unknown): “The articles by Manning and Roy (2010) and Battu and Zenou (2010) in this issue study some of these aspects.”
Heterogeneous peer effects in education (2014, unknown): “…in the US (and also in the K) have found that African American students in poor areas may be ambivalent about learning standard English and performing well at school because his may be regarded as “acting white” (Fordham and Ogbu, 1986; Wilson, 1987; Fryer and Torelli, 2010; Battu and Zenou, 2010).”