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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Baert, Stijn
• Cockx, Bart
• Gheyle, Niels
• Vandamme, Cora

Titel

Do Employers Discriminate Less If Vacancies Are Difficult to Fill? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Ist Teil von

• Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit/Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Jan 2013, 30 pp, 2013

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Quelle

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the occupation. To this end, we conduct a correspondence test in the youth labour market. In line with theoretical expectations, we find that, compared to natives, candidates with a foreign sounding name are equally often invited to a job interview if they apply for occupations for which vacancies are difficult to fill, but they have to send twice as many applications for occupations for which labour market tightness is low. Our findings are robust against various sensitivity checks. Tables, Appendixes, References.