-run persistence of observed discrimination against certain minorities in the labor market. The experiment provides some evidence … experiment, failing to generate a Self-Confirming Equilibrium driven by wrong beliefs. The strategy method provides additional …

We conduct a large-scale field experiment to investigate how Chinese firms respond to job applications from ethnic …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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