Revealing Taste-Based Discrimination in Hiring: A Correspondence Testing Experiment with Geographic Variation

Magnus Carlsson and Dan-Olof Rooth

No 6153, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: The standard correspondence testing experiment does not identify whether employer prejudice drives discriminatory behavior when hiring. This article proposes a new methodology using geographic variation to explore the link between employer attitudes toward ethnic minorities and the ethnic difference in callbacks for a job interview. Using already existing Swedish data we find that a randomly selected employer is more likely to discriminate against a minority job applicant in regions where the average employer has more negative attitudes.

Keywords: field experiments on hiring; negative attitudes; employer discrimination; regional variation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J64 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13 pages
Date: 2011-11
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Published - published in: Applied Economic Letters, 2012, 19 (18), 1861-1864

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