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Correspondence testing studies

Anti-discrimination policies play an important role in public discussions. However, identifying discriminatory practices in the labor market is not an easy task. Correspondence testing provides a credible way to reveal discrimination in hiring and provide hard facts for policies, and it has provided evidence of discrimination in hiring across almost all continents except Africa. The method involves sending matched pairs of identical job applications to employers posting jobs—the only difference being a characteristic that signals membership to a group.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Journal: IZA World of Labor ; ISSN: 2054-9571 ; Year: 2021 ; Bonn: Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Classification
Wirtschaft
Subject
correspondence testing
taste-based discrimination
statistical discrimination

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Rooth, Dan-Olof
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(where)
Bonn
(when)
2021

DOI
doi:10.15185/izawol.58.v2
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  • Rooth, Dan-Olof
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Time of origin

  • 2021

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