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

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Bruno Decreuse, Morgane Laouenan and Alain Trannoy

No 8150, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

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: local labor markets; ethnic unemployment; jobs in contact; matching frictions; discrimination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J61 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 48 pages
Date: 2014-04
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-lab, nep-lma and nep-ure
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Published - published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 34 (1 Part 1), 107 - 160

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Journal Article: Customer Discrimination and Employment Outcomes: Theory and Evidence from the French Labor Market (2016)
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