Muslims in France: Identifying a Discriminatory Equilibrium

Claire L. Adida (), David D. Laitin () and Marie-Anne Valfort ()
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Claire L. Adida: University of California, San Diego
David D. Laitin: Stanford University

No 6953, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We analyze the assimilation patterns of Muslim immigrants in Western countries with a unique identification strategy. Survey and experimental data collected in France in 2009 reveal that Muslims and rooted French are locked in a sub-optimal equilibrium whereby (i) rooted French exhibit taste-based discrimination against those they are able to identify as Muslims and (ii) Muslims perceive French institutions as systematically discriminatory against them. This equilibrium is sustained because Muslims, perceiving discrimination as institutionalized, are reluctant to assimilate and rooted French, who are able to identify Muslims as such due to their lower assimilation, reveal their distaste for Muslims.

Keywords: assimilation; Muslim and Christian immigrants; discrimination; France (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C90 D03 J15 J71 Z12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 62 pages
Date: 2012-10
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Published - published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27 (4), 1039-1086

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