Testing for Discrimination against Lesbians of Different Marital Status: A Field Experiment

Doris Weichselbaumer

No 7425, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: In this paper, a correspondence testing experiment is conducted to examine sexual orientation discrimination against lesbians in Germany. Applications for four fictional female characters are sent out in response to job advertisements: a heterosexual single, a married heterosexual, a single lesbian and a lesbian who is in a 'same-sex registered partnership'. Different results are obtained for the two cities investigated, Munich and Berlin. While single lesbians and lesbians in a registered partnership are equally discriminated in comparison to the heterosexual women in the city of Munich, no discrimination based on sexual orientation has been found in Berlin. Furthermore, for a subset of our data we can compare the effects of a randomized versus a paired testing approach, which suggests that under certain conditions, due to increased conspicuity, the paired testing approach may lead to biased results.

Keywords: discrimination; sexual orientation; Germany (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 J15 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2013-05
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Published - published in: Industrial Relations, 2015, 54 (1), 131-161

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Journal Article: Testing for Discrimination against Lesbians of Different Marital Status: A Field Experiment (2015)
Working Paper: Testing for discrimination against lesbians of different marital status: A field experiment (2013)
Working Paper: Testing for discrimination against lesbians of different marital status: A field experiment (2013)
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