Islamistic terror, the war on Iraq and the job prospects of Arab men in Britain: Does a country's direct involvement matter?
Research output: Working paper › Working papers
Standard
Lüneburg: Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, 2007. (Working paper series in economics; No. 70).
Research output: Working paper › Working papers
Harvard
APA
Vancouver
Bibtex
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
T1 - Islamistic terror, the war on Iraq and the job prospects of Arab men in Britain
T2 - Does a country's direct involvement matter?
AU - Braakmann, Nils
N1 - Literaturverz. S. 13 - 14
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - This paper examines whether the labor market prospects of Arab men in England are influenced by recent Islamistic terrorist attacks and the war on Iraq. We use data from the British Labour Force Survey from Spring 2001 to Winter 2006 and treat the terrorist attacks on the USA on September 11th, 2001, the Madrid train bombings on March 11th, 2004 and the London bombings on July 7th, 2005, as well as the beginning of the war on Iraq onMarch 20th, 2003, as natural experiments possibly having led to a change in attitudes toward Arab or Muslim men. Using treatment group definitions based on ethnicity, country of birth, current nationality, and religion, evidence from regression-adjusted difference-in-differences-estimators indicates that the real wages, hours worked and employment probabilities of Arab men were unchanged by the attacks. This finding is in line with prior evidence from Europe.
AB - This paper examines whether the labor market prospects of Arab men in England are influenced by recent Islamistic terrorist attacks and the war on Iraq. We use data from the British Labour Force Survey from Spring 2001 to Winter 2006 and treat the terrorist attacks on the USA on September 11th, 2001, the Madrid train bombings on March 11th, 2004 and the London bombings on July 7th, 2005, as well as the beginning of the war on Iraq onMarch 20th, 2003, as natural experiments possibly having led to a change in attitudes toward Arab or Muslim men. Using treatment group definitions based on ethnicity, country of birth, current nationality, and religion, evidence from regression-adjusted difference-in-differences-estimators indicates that the real wages, hours worked and employment probabilities of Arab men were unchanged by the attacks. This finding is in line with prior evidence from Europe.
KW - Economics
KW - Discrimination
KW - September 11th
KW - Islamistic terror
KW - employment
KW - wages
M3 - Working papers
T3 - Working paper series in economics
BT - Islamistic terror, the war on Iraq and the job prospects of Arab men in Britain
PB - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg
CY - Lüneburg
ER -