Revealing taste-based discrimination in hiring: a correspondence testing experiment with geographic variation

Magnus Carlsson and Dan-Olof Rooth

Applied Economics Letters, 2012, vol. 19, issue 18, 1861-1864

Abstract: The standard Correspondence Testing Experiment (CTE) does not identify whether employer prejudice, as opposed to statistical discrimination, drives discriminatory behaviour when hiring. This article proposes a new methodology using geographic variation to explore the link between employer attitudes towards 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.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2012.667537

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