Detecting racial discrimination using observational data is challenging because of the presence of unobservables that … may be correlated with race. Using data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard case, we estimate discrimination in a setting …

-based and statistical discrimination in explaining ethnic hiring discrimination. We find evidence that employer concern that co …

validity of future experiments on ethnic discrimination …In recent decades, researchers have found compelling evidence of discrimination in the labor and housing market toward … ethnic minorities based on field experiments using fictitious applications. However, these findings may be exaggerated as the …

facilitates testing for the presence of each of two intertwined drivers of discrimination: ethnic animus and socioeconomic status … prejudice. We find substantial evidence for the presence of discrimination based on both of these sources. Since Roma tend to … have lower socioeconomic status, the two sources of discrimination compound for them …

Relying on a correspondence study conducted in France before the 2015 attacks, this paper compares the callback rates …

We examine racial and ethnic inequality in offers of employer provided fringe benefits (health insurance, life … Youth. We do not find ethnic differences in the 1979 cohort or racial/ethnic differences in the 1997 cohort to be …

Several studies using observational data suggest that ethnic discrimination increases in downturns of the economy. We … investigate whether ethnic discrimination depends on labor market tightness using data from correspondence studies. We utilize … measures produce qualitatively similar results, and, opposite to the observational studies, suggests that ethnic discrimination …

We conduct a large‐scale field experiment to investigate how Chinese firms respond to job applications from ethnic … callback rates by ethnicity and that these differences vary systematically across ethnic groups. Not all firms discriminate …

We conduct a large-scale audit discrimination study to measure labor market discrimination across different minority … ethnic groups rather than focusing on a single minority as in most other studies. In all cases, we applied for entry … statistically significant differences in callback rates, suggesting that ethnic minority candidates would need to apply for more …

-Muslims, an ethnic minority group subjected to substantial labor market discrimination in Sweden, and more specifically ii …. Whereas traditional research has focused on self-conscious, explicit work related attitudes toward various ethnic minority …