Segregation, entrepreneurship and work values: the case of France

Claudia Senik () and Thierry Verdier

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Abstract: This paper studies the interaction between labor market integration, the evolution of "work values" and entrepreneurial capital inside minority communities. A simple model of labor market segmentation with ethnic capital and endogenous transmission of cultural values inside minority groups is presented. It emphasizes the role of entrepreneurial capital as an important driver of labor market integration and as a promoter of meritocratic work values inside the community. Using a new French survey rich in attitudinal variables, it then proposes an empirical illustration, focusing on the dissimilarity between the labor market integration of South European versus North African second generation immigrants in France. It shows that the contrasted economic and cultural integration of these minorities can be explained away by their different levels of entrepreneurial capital.

Keywords: social capital; ethnic segmentation; work values; labor discrimination; capital social; segmentation "ethnique"; rapport au travail; discrimination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-07
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