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Signaling Class : An Experiment Examining Social Class Perceptions from Names Used in Correspondence Audit Studies

Gaddis, S. Michael - 2019

Field and survey experiments examining racial discrimination and inequality commonly use names to signal race and ethnicity. However, little work has been done to understand how individuals interpret these signals. Despite strong concerns that racialized names simultaneously signal social class,...

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An Introduction to Audit Studies in the Social Sciences

Gaddis, S. Michael - 2017

An audit study is a specific type of field experiment primarily used to test for discriminatory behavior when survey and interview questions induce social desirability bias. In this chapter, I first review the language and definitions related to audit studies and encourage adoption of a common...

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Understanding the 'How' and 'Why' Aspects of Racial/Ethnic Discrimination : A Multi-Method Approach to Audit Studies

Gaddis, S. Michael - 2019

Researchers have used audit studies to provide causal evidence of racial discrimination for nearly sixty years. While audits are excellent methodological tools to investigate the “what,” “where,” and “when” aspects of racial/ethnic discrimination, they are less appropriate, by...

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How Black Are Lakisha and Jamal? Racial Perceptions from Names Used in Correspondence Audit Studies

Gaddis, S. Michael - 2017

Online correspondence audit studies have emerged as the primary method to examine racial discrimination. Although audits use distinctive names to signal race, few studies scientifically examine data regarding the perception of race from names. Different names treated as black or white may be...

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The impact of forced migration on in-group and out-group social capital

Hager, Anselm; Valasek, Justin - 2022

In this paper, we study how forced migration impacts the in-group and out-group social capital of Syrian refugees and the host population in Northern Lebanon by administering a novel survey experiment in which we manipulate the salience of the migration experience (for refugees) and the refugee...

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I'm neither racist nor xenophobic, but: dissecting European attitudes towards a ban on Muslims' immigration

Marfouk, Abdeslam - 2018

paper also provides evidence that racism and immigration phobia play a key role in shaping Europeans' support of a ban on … Muslim immigration. This finding challenges the discourse and campaigns of the populist groups who exploit the 'Islamization … of Europe' rhetoric successfully and use various pretexts to justify a call for a ban on Muslims' immigration, e.g. the …

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Are immigrants healthier than native residents? : immigrants tend to be healthier than native residents when they arrive - an advantage that dissipates with time

Neuman, Shoshana - 2014

In common anti-immigrant rhetoric, concerns are raised that immigrants bring diseases with them to the host country that threaten the health of the resident population. In reality, extensive empirical research over several decades and across multiple regions and host countries has documented...

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Pitfalls of immigrant inclusion into the European welfare state

Kahanec, Martin; Kim, Anna Myunghee; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011

This paper's main purpose is to gauge immigrants' demand for social assistance and services and identify the key barriers to social and labor market inclusion of immigrants in the European Union. The data from an online primary survey of experts from organizations working on immigrant...

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Ethnic minorities in the European Union : an overview

Kahanec, Martin; Zaiceva, Anzelica; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010

This paper sheds light on the labor market situation of ethnic minorities in the European Union. Facing a serious measurement challenge and lacking adequate data, we apply several measures of ethnicity and examine various data sources as well as secondary evidence. We find significant gaps...

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Ethnic Identity and the Employment Outcomes of Immigrants : Evidence from France

Delaporte, Isaure - 2019

. The results show that having multiple identities improves the employment outcomes of the migrants and contribute to help … design effective post-immigration policies …

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