Measuring labour differences between natives, non-natives, and natives with an ethnic-minority background

Nick Drydakis

Economics Letters, 2017, vol. 161, issue C, 27-30

Abstract: Through a field study we measure differences in employment outcomes between natives, non-natives, and natives with an ethnic-minority background. It is suggested that the joint effect of productivity uncertainties and distastes against ethnic-minority groups should be higher for non-natives than for natives with an ethnic-minority background. However, it is revealed that both non-natives and natives with an ethnic-minority background face comparable occupational access constraints and are sorted into similarly lower paid vacancies. An ethnic name regardless of one’s nationality is enough to generate unequal treatments.

Keywords: Occupational access; Wages; Ethnic minorities; Discrimination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J31 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2017.08.031

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