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Evidence of ethnic discrimination in the Swedish labor market using experimental data

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Carlsson, Magnus ; Rooth, Dan-Olof

Labour Economics

2007

14

4

August

716-729

discrimination ; ethnic factor ; job searching ; recruitment ; statistics

Sweden

Human rights

English

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"We present evidence of ethnic discrimination in the recruitment process by sending fictitious applications to real job openings. Applications with identical skills were randomly assigned Middle Eastern- or Swedish-sounding names and applications with a Swedish name receive fifty percent more callbacks for an interview.We extend previous analyses by adding register and interview information on firms/recruiters to the experimental data. We find that male recruiters and workplaces with fewer than twenty employees less often call applications with a Middle Eastern name for an interview. "

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