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Do employers discriminate less if vacancies are difficult to fill? Evidence from a field experiment

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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.

Language: Englisch

Bibliographic citation: Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 4093

Classification: 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

Subject: hiring discrimination
ethnic discrimination
labour market tightness
field experiments
Personalbeschaffung
Ethnische Diskriminierung
Arbeitsmarktdiskriminierung
Offene Stellen
Feldforschung
Belgien

Event: Geistige Schöpfung

(who): Baert, Stijn
Cockx, Bart
Gheyle, Niels
Vandamme, Cora

Event: Veröffentlichung

(who): Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

(where): Munich

(when): 2013

Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/69534

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Baert, Stijn
Cockx, Bart
Gheyle, Niels
Vandamme, Cora
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

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2013

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