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Ghettoes

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A ghetto is an area of a city in which a minority group is highly segregated and kept there by social, legal, or political forces. This article describes the history of Jewish ghettos of medieval Europe through the Nazi period. The African-American experience is also described, along with the effects of segregation on racial differences in economic outcomes. Examples of ghettos in Japan (the Burakumin), Australia (aborigines), and South Africa (apartheid) are mentioned, along with the related concept of an ethnic enclave.

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Margo, R.A. (2018). Ghettoes. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_2110

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