Headscarf and job recruitment-lifting the veil of labour market discrimination

Artikel

This paper investigates effects of appearance and religious practice of job applicants on the hiring decision. We asked participants in our laboratory experiment to select fictitious candidates for an interview from a pool of CVs with comparable characteristics but different photos. Some photos were of the same Turkish women with and without a headscarf. We demonstrate the effects of appearance, ethnicity, and veiling simultaneously and propose underlying mechanisms. We find robust effects of appearance but heterogeneous effects of headscarf on callback rates based on types of occupations and recruiters' characteristics. However, positive characteristics mitigate discrimination against headscarf and even reverse it.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: IZA Journal of Labor Economics ; ISSN: 2193-8997 ; Volume: 7 ; Year: 2018 ; Issue: 11 ; Pages: 1-32 ; Heidelberg: Springer

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination ; Labor Discrimination ; Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual
• Subject: Labour discrimination ; Beauty ; Ethnicity ; Economics of religion

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Leckcivilize, Attakrit ; Straub, Alexander
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Springer
• (where): Heidelberg
• (when): 2018

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.1186/s40172-018-0071-x
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/195033
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET