Residential-Based Discrimination in the Labor Market

Štěpán Mikula and Tommaso Reggiani ()

No 15142, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Through a correspondence study, this paper investigates whether employers discriminate job applicants based on their living conditions. Exploiting the natural setting provided by a Rapid Re-housing Program, we sent 1,347 job applications for low-qualified front-desk jobs in Brno, Czech Republic. The resumes exogenously differed in only one main aspect represented by the address of the applicants, signaling both the quality of the neighborhood and the quality of the housing conditions in which they were living. We found that while the higher quality of the district has a strong effect in increasing the hiring chances (+20%) the actual improvement of the living conditions standards, per se, does not generate any significant positive effect.

Keywords: Rapid Re-housing; correspondence study; labor discrimination; housing conditions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 J08 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2022-03
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Published - revised version published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy , 2022, 2, 373 - 388

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