We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the …

evidence in court in order to prevent ethnic discrimination. In the UK The Equality and Human Rights Commission has the right … to conduct discrimination tests and to even prosecute firms, implying that discriminating firms face the risk of a … significant penalty. Other European countries have been reluctant to use such tests as a tool for counteracting discrimination and …

We present experimental evidence for recruitment discrimination against men with an Arabic sounding name. Our results … discrimination is only responsible for less than one sixth of the native-immigrant unemployment gap. We extend previous analyses …

This paper studies ethnic discrimination in Germany's labour market with a correspondence test. To each of 528 …. Discrimination disappears when we restrict our sample to applications including reference letters which contain favourable … information about the candidate’s personality. We interpret this finding as evidence for statistical discrimination. …

This paper contributes to the existing literature on ethnic discrimination of immigrants in hiring by addressing the … remaining 23 per cent. This in turn, suggests a lower bound for statistical discrimination of approximately 23 per cent of total … discrimination. The analysis indicates further that the 77 per cent are most likely driven by a mixture of preference-based and …

Numerous empirical studies find a substantial extent of discrimination in hiring decisions. Anonymous job applications … have gained attention and popularity to identify and combat this form of discrimination. To test whether their intended …

We link two important ideas: attention is scarce and lack of information about an individual drives discrimination in … "attention discrimination": less attention in highly selective cherry-picking markets, where more attention helps applicants, and … persistence of discrimination in selection decisions, returns to human capital and, potentially, for policy. …