An experimental investigation of age discrimination in the Spanish labour market
Riach, Peter A. ; Rich, Judith
Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn
IZA - Bonn
2007
1 v.
age discrimination ; employment ; job searching ; recruitment
Discussion Paper Series
2654
Human rights
English
Bibliogr.
"In a field experiment of age discrimination, pairs of men aged twenty-seven and forty-seven, inquired, by email, about employment as waiters in twenty five Spanish towns. Discrimination against the older waiters, corresponded to the highest rates ever recorded anywhere, by written tests, for racial discrimination."
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