Riach, Peter A.; Rich, Judith - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
In a field experiment of age discrimination, pairs of men aged twenty-seven and forty-seven, inquired, by email, about … employment as waiters in twenty four French towns. The rate of net discrimination found against the older French waiter …, corresponds to the highest rates ever recorded anywhere, by written tests, for racial discrimination. Discrimination was higher in …