Labour Market Discrimination against Former Juvenile Delinquents: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Stijn Baert and Elsy Verhofstadt

No 7845, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We identify hiring discrimination against former juvenile delinquents in a direct way. To this end we conduct a field experiment in the Belgian labour market. We find that labour market discrimination is indeed a major barrier in the transition to work for former juvenile delinquents. Labour market entrants disclosing a history of juvenile delinquency get about 22 percent less callback compared to their counterparts without a criminal record. This discrimination is more outspoken among the low-educated.

Keywords: hiring discrimination; field experiments; juvenile delinquency; transitions in youth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 J2 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2013-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-exp, nep-lab and nep-lma
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Published - revised version published in: Applied Economics , 2015, 47 (11), 1061 - 1072

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