Racial Harassment, Ethnic Concentration and Economic Conditions

Christian Dustmann, Francesca Fabbri and Ian Preston

No 4885, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: In this paper, we analyse the association between spatial concentration of ethnic minorities, and racial harassment. Ethnic concentration relates to racial harassment through at least three channels: hostility in attitudes of majority individuals that find expression in harassment behaviour, the probability of minority individuals meeting majority individuals, and the cost of expressing hostility aggressively. Harassment can thus not simply be modeled as a stronger form of hostility. Using unique data for Britain, we show that, in area of higher local ethnic concentration, experience of harassment is lower, even though hostility on the side of the majority population is not.

Keywords: economics of minorities; interracial relations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2010-04
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Published - published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2011, 113 (3), 689-711

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