Customer Discrimination and Employment Outcomes: Theory and Evidence from the French Labor Market

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Bruno Decreuse, Morgane Laouenan and Alain Trannoy

Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, vol. 34, issue 1, 107 - 160

Abstract: The paper investigates the link between the overexposure of African immigrants to unemployment in France and their underrepresentation in jobs in contact with customers. We build a two-sector matching model with ethnic sector-specific preferences, economy-wide employer discrimination, and customer discrimination in jobs in contact with customers. The outcomes of the model allow us to build a test of ethnic discrimination in general and customer discrimination in particular. We run the test on French individual data in a cross section of local labor markets (employment areas). Our results show both ethnic and customer discrimination in the French labor market.

Date: 2016
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