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Ethnic differentials on the labor market in the presence of asymmetric spatial sorting : set identification and estimation
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Rathelot, Roland (2014) Ethnic differentials on the labor market in the presence of asymmetric spatial sorting : set identification and estimation. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 48 . pp. 154-167. doi:10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2014.06.007
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Abstract
This paper aims to isolate the ethnic gap on the labor market that can be attributed to ethnicity and not to differences in individual characteristics or residential location. Controlling for residential location is important as ethnic minorities often live in distressed neighborhoods. It is also challenging because spatial sorting is likely to differ across ethnicities because of labor- or housing-market discrimination. This paper shows that controlling for neighborhoods and observed individual characteristics fails to provide a consistent estimate for the component of the gap accountable to ethnicity only. However, under some assumptions, the quantity of interest is set identified even when heterogeneous sorting patterns across ethnicities are allowed for and the set estimate can still be informative. A two-step estimation method is presented and applied to explain the ethnic employment differential in France, between French individuals of North African ancestry and those with non-immigrant parents. Most of the gap is not due to differences in residential location or individual characteristics, but rather to ethnicity itself.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Minorities -- Employment -- Mathematical models -- France, Discrimination in employment -- Mathematical models -- France, Minorities -- Housing -- Mathematical models -- France, Discrimination in housing -- Mathematical models -- France | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Regional Science and Urban Economics | ||||||
| Publisher: | Elsevier BV | ||||||
| ISSN: | 01660462 | ||||||
| Official Date: | September 2014 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 48 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 154-167 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2014.06.007 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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