Racial Harassment, Ethnic Concentration and Economic Conditions

Christian Dustmann, Ian Peter Preston () and Francesca Fabbri
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: David E. Card

No 405, CReAM Discussion Paper Series from Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London

Abstract: We analyze the association between concentration of minorities and local economic conditions on the one side, and racial harassment and hostile majority attitudes on the other. We distinguish the formation of hostile attitudes and the realization of acts of racially motivated violence as distinct processes and find strong evidence for this. We develop a framework that subsumes and structures many existing theories on attitude formation and acts of harassment. Our measures of harassment include both direct reports and precautionary behaviour. Our data sources are the fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities for the UK and the 1981 and 1991 UK Census.

Keywords: Attitudes; Economics of Minorities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-his, nep-lab and nep-ure
Date: 2004-09
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Journal Article: Racial Harassment, Ethnic Concentration, and Economic Conditions (2011)
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