Does Labor Market Tightness Affect Ethnic Discrimination in Hiring?

Magnus Carlsson, Luca Fumarco and Dan-Olof Rooth

No 11285, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

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

Keywords: correspondence studies; the business cycle; labor market tightness; ethnic discrimination; hiring discrimination; field experiments; ranking models; screening models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 J15 J21 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2018-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-exp, nep-hme, nep-lma, nep-ltv and nep-ure
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Published - revised version published as 'Ethnic discrimination in hiring, labour market tightness and the business cycle - Evidence from field experiments.' in: Applied Economics, 2018, 50 (24), 2652 - 2663

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