Statistical Discrimination and Social Assimilation

Francis Bloch and Vijayendra Rao

Economics Bulletin, 2001, vol. 10, issue 2, 1-5

Abstract: Social assimilation has been observed in many societies where members of the minority group suffer from discrimination. In this note, we provide a simple economic model of assimilation and show that the adoption of the social behavior of the dominant group can be used as a signal by high productivity members of the minority group.

Keywords: social; assimilation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J0 J7 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001-10-10
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