TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Battu, Harminder
AU  - Mwale, McDonald
AU  - Zenou, Yves
        TI  - Oppositional Identities and the Labor Market
        PY  - 2005/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 1852
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp1852
        AB  - We develop a model in which non-white individuals are defined with respect to their social environment (family, friends, neighbors) and their attachments to their culture of origin (religion, language), and in which jobs are mainly found through social networks. We find that, depending on how strong peer pressures are, nonwhites choose to adopt "oppositional" identities since some individuals may identify with the dominant culture and others may reject that culture, even if it implies adverse labor market outcomes.
        KW  - multiple equilibria
KW  - ethnic minorities
KW  - identity
KW  - social networks
KW  - white’s norm
        ER  -