Ethnic Discrimination During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Ali Ahmed (), Mats Lundahl () and Eskil Wadensjö
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Ali Ahmed: Linköping University
Mats Lundahl: Stockholm School of Economics, Department of Economics

Chapter Chapter 11 in Migration and Integration in a Post-Pandemic World, 2023, pp 291-314 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Ethnic discrimination is common in labor and housing markets. It leads to lower wages and higher unemployment for ethnic minorities, to segregation in the labor market, and to residential segregation. Several studies show that the Covid-19 pandemic increased the extent of ethnic discrimination. The prejudice against hiring migrants may have increased because people from countries where the epidemic started or from countries with a lower vaccination coverage were blamed for the spread. It may also have increased in the cases where the Covid-19 pandemic led to higher unemployment making it less costly for employers to discriminate.

Keywords: Discrimination; Prejudice; Coronavirus; Covid-19; Pandemic; Labor market discrimination; Housing segregation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-19153-4_11

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