Assimilation patterns in cities
Assimilation patterns in cities
Do ethnic minority individuals assimilate to the majority’s norm or reject it – by trading off higher productivity and wages with a greater social distance to their culture of origin? We develop a model in which “oppositional” ethnic minority individualsresideinmoresegregatedareas,haveworseoutcomes(intermsofincome) but are not necessarily worse off in terms of welfare than assimilated ethnic minority individuals who live in less segregated areas. A policy that reduces transportation cost decreases rather than increases assimilation in cities. When there are more productivity spillovers between the two groups, ethnic minority individuals are more likely not to assimilate and to reject the majority’s norm. Finally, we show that ethnic minority individuals tend to assimilate more in bigger and more expensive cities.
Agglomeration economies, Cities, Ethnic minority, Identity, Welfare
Sato, Yasuhiro
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Zenou, Yves
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October 2020
Sato, Yasuhiro
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Zenou, Yves
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Abstract
Do ethnic minority individuals assimilate to the majority’s norm or reject it – by trading off higher productivity and wages with a greater social distance to their culture of origin? We develop a model in which “oppositional” ethnic minority individualsresideinmoresegregatedareas,haveworseoutcomes(intermsofincome) but are not necessarily worse off in terms of welfare than assimilated ethnic minority individuals who live in less segregated areas. A policy that reduces transportation cost decreases rather than increases assimilation in cities. When there are more productivity spillovers between the two groups, ethnic minority individuals are more likely not to assimilate and to reject the majority’s norm. Finally, we show that ethnic minority individuals tend to assimilate more in bigger and more expensive cities.
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Accepted/In Press date: 7 August 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 12 August 2020
Published date: October 2020
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Agglomeration economies, Cities, Ethnic minority, Identity, Welfare
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Local EPrints ID: 443293
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/443293
ISSN: 0014-2921
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Yasuhiro Sato
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