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: GREQAM - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - ECM - École Centrale de Marseille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Morgane Laouenan: Sciences Po - Sciences Po

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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-specific 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)
Date: 2014-04-01
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