TY - JOUR

T1 - Islamistic terror and the labour market prospects of arab men in england

T2 - Does a country's direct involvement matter?

AU - Braakmann, Nils

PY - 2010/9/1

Y1 - 2010/9/1

N2 - This paper considers two questions on the labour market discrimination against Arab or Muslim men after the recent terrorist attacks. First, I consider for the first time the impact of the September 11 attacks on the wages and working hours of Arabs in Europe. Second, I test whether the fact that a country was the direct target of terrorist attacks influences discrimination using the Madrid train bombings on 11 March 2004 and the London bombings on 7 July 2005 as quasi-experimental events. The results indicate that the wages, hours worked and employment probabilities of Arab men were unchanged by the attacks.

AB - This paper considers two questions on the labour market discrimination against Arab or Muslim men after the recent terrorist attacks. First, I consider for the first time the impact of the September 11 attacks on the wages and working hours of Arabs in Europe. Second, I test whether the fact that a country was the direct target of terrorist attacks influences discrimination using the Madrid train bombings on 11 March 2004 and the London bombings on 7 July 2005 as quasi-experimental events. The results indicate that the wages, hours worked and employment probabilities of Arab men were unchanged by the attacks.

KW - Economics

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77955829219&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-9485.2010.00525.x

DO - 10.1111/j.1467-9485.2010.00525.x

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 57

SP - 430

EP - 454

JO - Scottish Journal of Political Economy

JF - Scottish Journal of Political Economy

SN - 0036-9292

IS - 4

ER -