An Experimental Investigation of Age Discrimination in the French Labour Market

In a field experiment of age discrimination, pairs of men aged twenty-seven and forty-seven, inquired, by email, about employment as waiters in twenty four French towns. The rate of net discrimination found against the older French waiter, corresponds to the highest rates ever recorded anywhere, by written tests, for racial discrimination. Discrimination was higher in Paris than in the rest of France

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Year of publication:	[2015]
Authors:	Riach, Peter Andrew
Other Persons:	Rich, Judith (contributor)
Publisher:	[2015]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Arbeitsmarktdiskriminierung \| Labour market discrimination \| Frankreich \| France \| Ältere Arbeitskräfte \| Older workers \| Experiment \| Altersgruppe \| Age group

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (20 p)
Series:	IZA Discussion Paper ; No. 2522
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments December 2006 erstellt
Other identifiers:	10.2139/ssrn.956389 [DOI]
Classification:	J71 - Discrimination ; C93 - Field Experiments
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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