Roma and Bureaucrats: A Field Experiment on Ethnic and Socioeconomic Discrimination

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This paper tests for discriminatory treatment of the Roma minority by public officials in the Czech Republic at the stage of initial contact preceding a potential application for unemployment benefit. Our correspondence experiment facilitates testing for the presence of each of two intertwined drivers of discrimination: ethnic animus and socioeconomic status prejudice. We find substantial evidence for the presence of discrimination based on both of these sources. Since Roma tend to have lower socioeconomic status, the two sources of discrimination compound for them.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 16218

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination ; Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption ; Social Security and Public Pensions
• Subject: discrimination ; Roma ; ethnicity ; socioeconomic status ; public services ; social security ; field experiment

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Mikula, Stepan ; Montag, Josef
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2023

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/278916
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET