TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Dasgupta, Indraneel
AU  - Mukherjee, Diganta
        TI  - Assimilation, Criminality and Ethnic Conflict
        PY  - 2014/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 7924
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp7924
        AB  - We examine the consequences, of integrating large minorities into productivity-relevant majority ethno-linguistic norms, for distribution, ethnic conflict and crime. We develop a two-community model where such assimilation generates social gains by: (a) facilitating economic interaction, and (b) dampening religious or racial conflict over symbolic and normative contents of the public sphere. However, integration shifts the distribution of both material and symbolic goods against the minority. It also expands income inequality within the minority community. This incentivizes decentralized attempts to expropriate producers which, through cumulative causation, both immiserize and criminalize the minority. An underclass thus results, with disproportionate minority presence.
        KW  - minority
KW  - identity
KW  - language
KW  - assimilation
KW  - discrimination
KW  - ethnic conflict
KW  - crime
KW  - welfare dependency
        ER  -