Is Ethnic Discrimination Due to Distaste or Statistics?

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.

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Year of publication:	2014
Authors:	Baert, Stijn ; De Pauw, Ann-Sophie
Publisher:	Bonn : Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Subject:	taste discrimination \| statistical discrimination \| hiring discrimination \| economics of ethnic minorities

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Series:	IZA Discussion Papers ; 8319
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	79125285X [GVK] hdl:10419/101866 [Handle] RePEc:iza:izadps:dp8319 [RePEc]
Classification:	J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; J60 - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies. General ; C92 - Laboratory; Group Behavior
Source:	EconStor

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