Arbeitspapier
Do employers discriminate less if vacancies are difficult to fill? Evidence from a field experiment
We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the occupation. To this end, we conduct a correspondence test in the youth labour market. In line with theoretical expectations, we find that, compared to natives, candidates with a foreign sounding name are equally often invited to a job interview if they apply for occupations for which vacancies are difficult to fill, but they have to send twice as many applications for occupations for which labour market tightness is low. Our findings are robust against various sensitivity checks.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 4093
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Field Experiments
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Monopsony; Segmented Labor Markets
Labor Discrimination
- Thema
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hiring discrimination
ethnic discrimination
labour market tightness
field experiments
Personalbeschaffung
Ethnische Diskriminierung
Arbeitsmarktdiskriminierung
Offene Stellen
Feldforschung
Belgien
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Baert, Stijn
Cockx, Bart
Gheyle, Niels
Vandamme, Cora
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
- (wo)
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Munich
- (wann)
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2013
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Baert, Stijn
- Cockx, Bart
- Gheyle, Niels
- Vandamme, Cora
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Entstanden
- 2013
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