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 …

A large body of research documents the existence of discrimination against migrants and ethnic minorities in the labour … market. This study investigates for Austria, to what degree employment discrimination against ethnic minorities is mitigated … ethnicity salient or when they hold a local sounding name. In our correspondence test, we found that with matching ethnic names …

This study assesses hiring discrimination based on disclosed depression. We send out pairs of job applications from …, whereas it affects the hiring decisions made by male recruiters in a non-positive way. …

from ethnic minority and Han applicants. We signal ethnicity by using names that are typically Han Chinese and … distinctively Mongolian, Tibetan, and Uighur. We find significant differences in callback rates by ethnicity. These differences vary …

This paper studies the effect of competition on ethnic discrimination by carrying out a field experiment in the context … and survey information indicate that local and wholesale buyers do not have different tastes for discrimination. This … suggests that market competition can eliminate the discrimination of wholesale buyers. …

and taste-based theories of discrimination propose similar observable outcomes (lower rates of disfavored minority hiring … distinguish between taste-based discrimination where employers' racial animus is the key motivation for their poor treatment of … minorities and variants of statistical discrimination where there is no assumption at all of racial animus on the part of the …

This study presents a new field experimental approach for measuring age discrimination in hiring. In addition to the … pairs. When applying this design to the Belgium case, we find that age discrimination is fundamentally heterogeneous by …

suburbs. We find evidences of significant hiring discrimination against applicants of North African origin, regardless of …This study uses the findings of a test carried out by correspondence in order to assess separately the potential hiring …

toward gay men. A one standard deviation increase in taste-discrimination attitudes against gay men decreased their access to … occupations by 9.6%. Furthermore, a one standard deviation increase in statistical-discrimination attitudes against gay men … applicants expressed a higher level of taste- and statistical-discrimination attitudes compared to 2006-2007. A gay rights …