Ethnic Discrimination in Germany's Labour Market: A Field Experiment
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Auteurs : Leo Kaas [Allemagne] ; Christian Manger [Allemagne]Source :
- German Economic Review [ 1465-6485 ] ; 2012-02.
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- topic : Discrimination ethnique.
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- Applicant, Application process, Authors german, Business cycle, Callback, Callback probabilities, Callback rate, Callback rates, Contact information, Correspondence test, Correspondence test method, Dennis langer, Different applications, Different names, Different regions, Different types, Differential treatment, Discrimination, Discussion paper, Dummy, East germany, Economic journal, Equal treatment, Ethnic discrimination, Ethnic minorities, Ethnicity, Experimental design, Fatih yildiz, Favourable information, Field data, Field experiment, Field experiments, Field study, Firm characteristics, First application, First names, First wave, Full sample, Further interest, German applicants, German candidate, German citizens, German labour market, German name, German student, Good grades, Human resource management, Human resource manager, Human resources, Insurance coverage, Interaction term, Internship, Kaas, Labor market discrimination, Laboratory experiments, Labour, Labour economics, Labour market, Labour market table, Large firms, Large internet, Large number, Larger firms, Manger, Migration background, More callbacks, More information, More time, Mother tongue, Multinomial logit, Other characteristics, Other countries, Other field studies, Other hand, Personality information, Positive reaction, Positive response, Probit, Probit regression, Quarterly journal, Reasonable fraction, Reference letters, Second generation immigrants, Second wave, Serial letters, Serkan sezer, Similar applications, Small firms, Smaller firms, Socialpolitik, Specific requirements, Specific segment, Statistical discrimination, Statistisches bundesamt, Student internships, Substantial share, Such effects, Turkish, Turkish applicant, Turkish candidate, Turkish migration background, Turkish name, Turkish names, Unequal treatment, University grades, Verein, Voice mail, West germany, Workday, Worker characteristics.
Abstract
Abstract. This paper studies ethnic discrimination in Germany's labour market with a correspondence test. We send two similar applications to each of 528 advertisements for student internships, one with a Turkish‐sounding and one with a German‐sounding name. A German name raises the average probability of a callback by about 14%. Differential treatment is particularly strong and significant in smaller firms at which the applicant with the German name receives 24% more callbacks. 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.
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DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0475.2011.00538.x
Affiliations:
- Allemagne
- Bade-Wurtemberg, District de Fribourg-en-Brisgau
- Constance (Allemagne)
- Université de Constance
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