Is ethnic discrimination due to distaste or statistics?

Stijn Baert and Ann-Sophie De Pauw

Economics Letters, 2014, vol. 125, issue 2, 270-273

Abstract: Employing a vignette experiment, we test the empirical importance of key attitudes underlying the models of taste-based and statistical discrimination in explaining ethnic hiring discrimination. We find that employer concern that co-workers and customers prefer collaborating with natives drives discrimination.

Keywords: Taste discrimination; Statistical discrimination; Hiring discrimination; Economics of ethnic minorities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C92 J24 J60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2014.09.020

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