Is ethnic discrimination due to distaste or statistics?

Employing a vignette experiment, we test the empirical importance of key attitudes underlying the models of taste-based and statistical discrimination in explaining ethnic hiring discrimination. We find that employer concern that co-workers and customers prefer collaborating with natives drives discrimination.

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Year of publication:	2014
Authors:	Baert, Stijn ; De Pauw, Ann-Sophie
Published in:	Economics Letters. - Elsevier, ISSN 0165-1765. - Vol. 125.2014, 2, p. 270-273
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Taste discrimination \| Statistical discrimination \| Hiring discrimination \| Economics of ethnic minorities

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Type of publication:	Article
Classification:	J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; J60 - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies. General ; C92 - Laboratory; Group Behavior
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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