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Ethnic Employment Gaps of Graduates in the Netherlands

Bisschop, Paul; Weel, Bas ter; Zwetsloot, Jelle - 2020

This research documents ethnic employment gaps for labour-market entrants in the Netherlands in the period 2006 …-2016. We compare short-term and long-term differences in employment of Dutch graduates with graduates from Moroccan, Turkish … education, which is a group of graduates with many people from ethnic minorities. We document ethnic employment gaps by using an …

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Stories employers tell : race, skill, and hiring in America

Moss, Philip I.; Tilly, Chris - 2001

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Race and gender discrimination at work

Cohn, Samuel R. - 2000

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Salary history and employer demand : evidence from a two-sided audit

Agan, Amanda; Cowgill, Bo; Gee, Laura K. - 2022

We study how salary history disclosures affect employer demand, and how salary history bans shape hiring and wages. We show how these effects depend on the properties of the labor market, and we measure the key properties using a novel, two-sided field experiment. Our field experiment features...

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A field experiment on the role of socioemotional skills and gender for hiring in Turkey

Nas Özen, Efşan; Hut, Stefan; Levin, Victoria; Muñoz … - 2020

A vast literature shows the importance of socioemotional skills in earnings and employment, but whether they matter in …

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Does Racial and Ethnic Discrimination Vary Across Minority Groups? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Booth, Alison L.; Leigh, Andrew; Varganova, Elena - 2015

We conduct a large-scale audit discrimination study to measure labor market discrimination across different minority groups in Australia – a country where one quarter of the population was born overseas. To denote ethnicity, we use distinctively Anglo-Saxon, Indigenous, Italian, Chinese, and...

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Do Employers Discriminate Less If Vacancies are Difficult to Fill? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart; Gheyle, Niels; Vandamme, Cora - 2013

We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the occupation. To this end, we conduct a correspondence test in the youth labour market. In line with theoretical expectations, we find that, compared to natives, candidates with a...

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Do Politicians Discriminate Against Constituents with an Immigration Background? Field Experimental Evidence from Germany

Alizade, Jeyhun; Ellger, Fabio - 2020

Immigration is changing the face of Western European electorates. Do politicians discriminate against the growing number of constituents with an immigration background? While ethnic distance can explain lower responsiveness to outgroup constituents, shared partisanship might mitigate...

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Ethnic Discrimination in Germany's Labour Market : A Field Experiment

Kaas, Leo - 2015

This paper studies ethnic discrimination in Germany's labour market with a correspondence test. To each of 528 advertisements for student internships we send two similar applications, one with a Turkish-sounding and one with a German-sounding name. A German name raises the average probability of...

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Discrimination in a Low-Wage Labor Market : A Field Experiment

Pager, Devah - 2015

further illustrates the multiple points at which employment trajectories can be deflected by various forms of racial bias …. Together these results point to the subtle but systematic forms of discrimination that continue to shape employment …

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