Is Ethnic Discrimination Due to Distaste or Statistics?

Stijn Baert and Ann-Sophie De Pauw ()
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Ann-Sophie De Pauw: IÉSEG School of Management

No 8319, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Employing a lab experiment, we directly test the empirical importance of key attitudes underlying the models of taste-based and statistical discrimination in explaining ethnic hiring discrimination. We find evidence that employer concern that co-workers and customers will prefer collaborating with native individuals drives unequal treatment.

Keywords: economics of ethnic minorities; hiring discrimination; taste discrimination; statistical discrimination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C92 J24 J60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 pages
Date: 2014-07
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Published - revised version published in: Economics Letters , 2014, 125 (2), 170 - 273

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