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来源

来源 JOURNAL OF URBAN ECONOMICS,Vol.73,P.137-146

语言

英文

关键字

J15;J71;Ghetto culture;Overlapping generations;Rational expectations;Multiple equilibria;Peer effects;Neighborhood effects

作者单位

Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, University of Zurich, Switzerland"}]},{"#name":"affiliation","$":{"id":"aff2;Stockholm University and Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Sweden"}]},{"#name":"correspondence","$":{"id":"cor1;Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, University of Zurich, Switzerland"}]},"aff2":{"#name":"affiliation","$":{"id":"aff2;Stockholm University and Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Sweden"}]}},"correspondences":{"cor1":{"#name":"correspondence","$":{"id":"cor1

摘要

Workers can have good or bad work habits. These traits are transmitted from one generation to the next through a learning and imitation process, which depends on parents’ investment in the trait and the social environment where children live. If a sufficiently high proportion of employers have taste-based prejudices against minority workers, we show that their prejudices are always self-fulfilled in steady state and minority workers end up having, on average, worse work habits than majority workers. This leads to a ghetto culture. Affirmative Action can improve the welfare of minorities whereas integration can be beneficial to minority workers but detrimental to workers from the majority group.