Ethnic discrimination in hiring, labour market tightness and the business cycle - evidence from field experiments

Magnus Carlsson, Luca Fumarco and Dan-Olof Rooth

Applied Economics, 2018, vol. 50, issue 24, 2652-2663

Abstract: Several studies using observational data suggest that ethnic discrimination increases in downturns of the economy. We investigate whether ethnic discrimination depends on labour market tightness using data from correspondence studies. We utilize three correspondence studies of the Swedish labour market and two different measures of labour market tightness. These two measures produce qualitatively similar results, and, opposite to the observational studies, suggest that ethnic discrimination in hiring decreases in downturns of the economy.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2017.1406653

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