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Do Swedish Schools Discriminate against Children with Disabilities?
Ahmed, Ali M.; Hammarstedt, Mats; Karlsson, Karl - 2020
We present results from a field experiment in which fictitious parents to children with certain types of disabilities … children with these disabilities and that discrimination is most prevalent in private schools. Private schools discriminated …. One potential effect of our results is that children with disabilities are referred to less attractive schools than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012615398
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Do Swedish schools discriminate against children with disabilities?
Ahmed, Ali; Hammarstedt, Mats; Karlsson, Karl - 2020
We present results from a field experiment in which fictitious parents to children with certain types of disabilities … children with these disabilities and that discrimination is most prevalent in private schools. Private schools discriminated …. One potential effect of our results is that children with disabilities are referred to less attractive schools than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012206808
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Do Swedish schools discriminate against children with disabilities?
Ahmed, Ali M.; Hammarstedt, Mats; Karlsson, Karl - 2020
We present results from a field experiment in which fictitious parents to children with certain types of disabilities … admission for their children. Our results reveal that Swedish preschools discriminated against children with these disabilities … effect of our results is that children with disabilities are referred to as less attractive preschools than children with no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012200004
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Do Swedish schools discriminate against children with disabilities?
Ahmed, Ali M.; Hammarstedt, Mats; Karlsson, Karl - 2020
We present results from a field experiment in which fictitious parents to children with certain types of disabilities … children with these disabilities and that discrimination is most prevalent in private schools. Private schools discriminated …. One potential effect of our results is that children with disabilities are referred to less attractive schools than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012208785
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Are homosexuals discriminated against in the hiring process?
Ahmed, Ali; Andersson, Lina; Hammarstedt, Mats - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2011
This paper presents the first field experiment on sexual orientation discrimination in the hiring process in the Swedish labor market. Job applications were sent to about 4,000 employers in 10 different occupations in Sweden. Gender and sexual orientation were randomly assigned to applications....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009386421
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Are Gay Men and Lesbians Discriminated against in the Hiring Process?
Ahmed, Ali M.; Andersson, Lina; Hammarstedt, Mats - In: Southern Economic Journal 79 (2013) 3, pp. 565-585
This article presents the first field experiment on sexual orientation discrimination in the hiring process in the Swedish labor market. Job applications were sent to about 4000 employers in 10 different occupations in Sweden. Gender and sexual orientation were randomly assigned to applications....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010857250
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Are homosexuals discriminated against in the hiring process
Ahmed, Ali; Andersson, Lina; Hammarstedt, Mats - 2011
This paper presents the first field experiment on sexual orientation discrimination in the hiring process in the Swedish labor market. Job applications were sent to about 4,000 employers in 10 different occupations in Sweden. Gender and sexual orientation were randomly assigned to applications....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321159
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Ethnic Background and the Value of Self-Employment Experience: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Aldén, Lina; Bastani, Spencer; Hammarstedt, Mats - 2020
In this paper, we use a randomized field experiment in Sweden to investigate how self-employment experience is valued in the labor market. We find that self-employment experience negatively impacts the probability of receiving a positive response from employers. For male applicants, this holds...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012615437
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(I can't get no) job satisfaction? Differences by sexual orientation in Sweden
Aldén, Lina; Hammarstedt, Mats; Swahnberg, Hanna - 2018
We present results from a unique nationwide survey conducted in Sweden on sexual orientation and job satisfaction. Our results show that gay men, on average, seem more satisfied with their job than heterosexual men; lesbians appear less satisfied with their job than heterosexual women. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012145466
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Discrimination in the housing market — a field experiment on the internet
Ahmed, Ali; Hammarstedt, Mats - Centrum för arbetsmarknadspolitisk forkskning (CAFO), … - 2007
This paper studies ethnic and gender discrimination in the housing market in Sweden with the help of a field experiment on the internet. By letting three testers, one with a typical male Swedish name, one with a typical female Swedish name, and one with a typical male Arabic/Muslim name apply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645261