Arbeitspapier
Immigrant Volunteering: A Way Out of Labour Market Discrimination?
Many governments encourage migrants to participate in volunteer activities as a stepping stone to labour market integration. In the present study, we investigate whether this prosocial engagement lowers the hiring discrimination against them. To this end, we use unique data from a field experiment in which fictitious job applications are sent in response to real vacancies in Belgium. Ethnic origin and volunteer activities are randomly assigned to these applications. While non-volunteering native candidates receive more than twice as many job interview invitations as non‐volunteering migrants, no unequal treatment is found between natives and migrants when they reveal volunteer activities.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 9763
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
Labor Discrimination
Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers
- Subject
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immigrants
volunteering
discrimination
hiring
integration
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Baert, Stijn
Vujić, Sunčica
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2016
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Baert, Stijn
- Vujić, Sunčica
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2016
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