The economics of identity: The origin and persistence of racial identity norms

Darity, William A.; Mason, Patrick L.; Stewart, James B.

doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2004.09.005

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“…Table 3 shows that such an estimate is clearly positive, which indicates that a cultural distinction mechanism of identity formation is consistent with our data. 29 To develop a better intuition about which aspect of the data drives this result, we study the endogenous identity model (i.e. the better performing model) in more detail.…”

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“…28 For only one of the two solutions of the endogenous location model the estimation converges. 29 A more rigorous statistical comparison which would imply to compare the unconstrained with the constrained likelihood under the two sets of constraints γ 2 > 0 and γ 2 < 0 is problematic in these cases because the distribution of the resulting likelihood ratio tests with inequality constraints are non-standard (see Chernoff, 1954;Wilks, 1938;Self and Liang, 1987;Shaw and Geyer, 1997). 30 We replace C(q) = c(1 − q) in (9) and (10).…”

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Bend It Like Beckham: Ethnic Identity and Integration

Bisin¹,

Patacchini²,

Verdier³

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author.IZA Discussion Paper No. 5234 October 2010 ABSTRACT Bend It Like Beckham: Ethnic Identity and Integration *We propose a theoretical framework to study the determinants of ethnic and religious identity along two distinct motivational processes which have been proposed in the social sciences: cultural conformity and cultural distinction. Under cultural conformity, ethnic identity is reduced by neighborhood integration, which weakens group loyalties and prejudices. On the contrary, under cultural distinction, ethnic minorities are more motivated in retaining their own distinctive cultural heritage the more integrated are the neighborhoods where they reside and work. Data on ethnic preferences and attitudes provided by the Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities in the UK enables us to test the relative significance of these two identity processes. We find evidence consistent with intense ethnic and religious identity mostly formed as a cultural distinction mechanism. Consistently, we document that ethnic identities are more intense in mixed than in segregated neighborhoods.JEL Classification: A14, J15

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Bend It Like Beckham: Ethnic Identity and Integration

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Verdier³

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“…The experience of financialisation in different countries has however been quite diverse (Lapavitsas and Powell 2013), which suggests that managerial and financial norms go beyond economic and religious values to include social identities. In effect, the masculinity (Knights andTullberg 2012, Connell andMesserschmidt 2005), intersectionality (hooks 1981, Nash 2008), stratification (Darity et al 2006, Mason 1996 and feminist (Nelson 1992, Meyers 2005 literatures, have stressed the importance of social identities in influencing economic interactions, and in particular how it affects the movement of income between social groups.…”

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“…If one considers Weber's view to be applicable to the US, the managerial and financial behavioural norm of the Great Moderation is therefore at the intersection of capitalist, protestant, and masculine ideals which have led to the building of earning excesses. The literatures on intersectionality (hooks 1981(hooks , Nash 2008 and stratification (Darity et al 2006, Mason 1996 in effect show that the cumulative effect of identities on the social stratification of modern economies can lead to worse outcomes than considering identities separately (Davis 2015). For instance, the intersectionality literature started as a critique of the early feminist movement considered to be biased towards white middle-class women and ignoring the experience of black women.…”

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Power, Intergroup Conflicts and Social Stratification in the United States: What has the Global Crisis Taught us?

Arestis

Charles

Fontana

2015

Review of Social Economy

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Drawing on early sociological analyses of how power and intergroup conflicts can affect the development of modern economies, this paper investigates how the recent Global Crisis has affected the stratification of the US society. The paper argues that the consumerist society has reinforced the historical stratification of social identities with white men in highpaid, high-social status managerial and financial occupations at the top, and black women in low-paid, low-status service occupations at the bottom. This paper calls for a deconstruction of the neo-liberal individual into a unique combination of identities in a stratified capitalist society in order to reveal how social stratification has evolved during the Global Crisis. The paper finally concludes on the importance of heterogeneous identities in reflecting the diversity of societal and economic interests in order to address the issue of financial stability and sustainability at the corporate and societal levels.

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“…Darity et al (2006) in a central paper use evolutionary game theory to study the origin and persistence of racial identity norms. In particular they study the relationship between wealth accumulation and racial identity.…”

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Immigrants, ethnic identities and the nation-state

Constant¹,

Zimmermann²

2013

International Handbook on the Economics of Migration

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu In the Western world, multiculturalism has become the way to view and form "nationhood," igniting the interest to understand and model identity. The complexity of identity formation, however, has been firm and ethnic and national identities have been deviating more and more. In this paper, we seek to investigate the nature, role and relationships between ethnic and national identities by using migrants as the natural innovators. The arrival of immigrants can amplify social challenges and both natives and immigrants can see their identities altering and evolving. Individuals in a country can be patriotic, nationalistic, indifferent, apathetic, or subvert and undermining. The openness of the people in the host country, their embracing of new cultures and their respect towards newcomers can play a major role in how immigrants react and how close they remain with the country of origin. The laws of the host country together with the ideals, the self-understanding and the foundation of the sovereign nation can also affect the identities of immigrants and natives at the individual level and at the nation-building level. We present empirical results concerning ethnic and national identities and we discuss the ramifications of the divergence between them. We review surveys and experimental contributions to the study of identity formation and its consequences for economic behavior. Before we conclude we debate the endogeneity issue of identity. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SJEL Classification: F22, F52, F54, F59, J15, J16, Z10

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The economics of identity: The origin and persistence of racial identity norms

Cited by 189 publications

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Bend It Like Beckham: Ethnic Identity and Integration

Bend It Like Beckham: Ethnic Identity and Integration

Power, Intergroup Conflicts and Social Stratification in the United States: What has the Global Crisis Taught us?

Immigrants, ethnic identities and the nation-state

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