Do Employers Discriminate Less if Vacancies Are Difficult to Fill? Evidence From a Field Experiment

Stijn Baert, Bart Cockx, N. Gheyle and C. Vandamme
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Abstract: We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the occupation. To this end, we conduct a correspondence test in the youth labour market. In line with theoretical expectations, we find that, compared to natives, can- didates with a foreign sounding name are equally often invited to a job interview if they apply for occupations for which vacancies are difficult to fill, but they have to send twice as many applications for occupa- tions for which labour market tightness is low. Our findings are robust against various sensitivity checks.

Keywords: hiring discrimination; ethnic discrimination; labour market tightness; field experiments. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 J15 J21 J24 J42 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-01
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