The impact of September 11th, 2001 on the job prospects for foreigners with Arab background: evidence from German labor market data
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Lüneburg: Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, 2007. (Working paper series in economics; No. 37).
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TY - UNPB
T1 - The impact of September 11th, 2001 on the job prospects for foreigners with Arab background
T2 - evidence from German labor market data
AU - Braakmann, Nils
N1 - Auch im Internet unter der Adresse www.uni-lueneburg.de/vwl/papers verfügbar
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - This paper examines whether the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11th, 2001 have influence on the job prospects of Arabs in the German labor market. Using a large, representative database of the German working population, the attacks are treated as a natural experiment that may have caused an exogenous shift in attitudes toward persons who are perceived to be Arabs. Evidence from regression-adjusted difference-in-differences-estimates indicates the 9/11 did not cause a severe decline in job prospects. This result is robust over a wide range of control groups and several definitions of the sample and the observation period. Several explanations for this result, which is in line with prior evidence from Sweden, are offered.
AB - This paper examines whether the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11th, 2001 have influence on the job prospects of Arabs in the German labor market. Using a large, representative database of the German working population, the attacks are treated as a natural experiment that may have caused an exogenous shift in attitudes toward persons who are perceived to be Arabs. Evidence from regression-adjusted difference-in-differences-estimates indicates the 9/11 did not cause a severe decline in job prospects. This result is robust over a wide range of control groups and several definitions of the sample and the observation period. Several explanations for this result, which is in line with prior evidence from Sweden, are offered.
KW - Economics, empirical/statistics
KW - Arbeitsmarkt
KW - Diskriminierung
KW - Araber
KW - Discrimination
KW - September 11th
KW - Exit from unemployment
M3 - Working papers
T3 - Working paper series in economics
BT - The impact of September 11th, 2001 on the job prospects for foreigners with Arab background
PB - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg
CY - Lüneburg
ER -