Revealing taste-based discrimination in hiring: A correspondence testing experiment with geographic variation

Arbeitspapier

The standard correspondence testing experiment does not identify whether employer prejudice drives discriminatory behavior when hiring. This article proposes a new methodology using geographic variation to explore the link between employer attitudes toward ethnic minorities and the ethnic difference in callbacks for a job interview. Using already existing Swedish data we find that a randomly selected employer is more likely to discriminate against a minority job applicant in regions where the average employer has more negative attitudes.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6153

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search ; Labor Discrimination
• Thema: field experiments on hiring ; employer discrimination ; negative attitudes ; regional variation ; Personalbeschaffung ; Arbeitsnachfrage ; Arbeitsmarktdiskriminierung ; Ethnische Gruppe ; Region ; Schweden

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Carlsson, Magnus ; Rooth, Dan-Olof
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2011

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/58946
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2012010913732
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ