Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/295338 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
CReAM Discussion Paper Series No. 24/09
Publisher: 
Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London, London
Abstract: 
Where a community or group is socially excluded from a dominant group, some individuals of that group may identify with the dominant culture and others may reject that culture. The aim of this paper is to investigate this issue by empirically analyzing the potential trade-off for ethnic minorities between sticking to their own roots and labour market success. We find that the social environment of individuals and attachments to culture of origin has a strong association with identity choice. Our results also suggest that those non-whites who have preferences that accord with being "oppositional" do experience an employment penalty.
Subjects: 
Ethnic minorities
identity
social networks
white's norm
JEL: 
J15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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