Customer Discrimination and Employment OUtcomes: Theory and Evidence from the French Labor Market

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Bruno Decreuse (), Morgane Laouenan and Alain Trannoy
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Bruno Decreuse: Aix-Marseille University (Aix-Marseille School of Economics), CNRS & EHESS

No 2013016, LIDAM Discussion Papers IRES from Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES)

Abstract: The paper investigates the link between the over-exposure of African immigrants to unemployment in France and their under-representation in jobs in contact with customers. We build a two-sector matching model with ethnic sector-specifc preferences, economy-wide employer discrimination, and customer discrimination in jobs in contact with customers. The outcomes of the model allow us to build a test of ethnic discrimination in general and customer discrimination in particular. We run the test on French individual data in a cross-section of local labor markets (Employment Areas). Our results show that there is both ethnic and customer discrimination in the French labor market.

Keywords: Discrimination; Matching frictions; Jobs in contact; Ethnic unemployment; Local labor markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J61 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40
Date: 2013-06-28
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dem, nep-lab, nep-mig and nep-ure
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