Revealing taste-based discrimination in hiring: a correspondence testing experiment with geographic variation

The standard Correspondence Testing Experiment (CTE) does not identify whether employer prejudice, as opposed to statistical discrimination, drives discriminatory behaviour when hiring. This article proposes a new methodology using geographic variation to explore the link between employer attitudes...

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Volume:	19
Main Author:	Carlsson, Magnus Rooth, Dan-Olof
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Place of publication:	ABINGDON Taylor & Francis 01.12.2012 ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD Taylor and Francis Journals
published in:	Applied economics letters Vol. 19; no. 18; pp. 1861 - 1864
ORCID:	0000-0001-8887-5677 0000-0002-5620-4745
Data of publication:	12/1/2012
ISSN:	1350-4851 1466-4291
EISSN:	1466-4291
Discipline:	Economics
Series:	Applied Economics Letters
Subjects:	regional variation ethnic discrimination employer prejudice correspondence testing Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences regional variation ethnic discrimination employer prejudice correspondence testing
Online Access:	Fulltext
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2012 Web of Knowledge Web of Science RePEc RePEc IDEAS CrossRef Database information Databases - DBIS