Employment discrimination in a former Soviet Union republic: evidence from a field experiment
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Higher levels of hiring discrimination against Western Asian applicants in Asia could be explained by the relatively large local presence of these minority groups in Asian labour markets and negative connotations associated with these groups in those regions.
“These higher levels of hiring discrimination could be explained by (i) the relatively large local presence of these minority groups in Asian labour markets compared to European labour markets and (ii) the negative connotations associated with these groups within these particular regions, which do not necessarily exist in European countries (Asali et al., 2018;Maurer-Fazio, 2013).”
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The Introduction (p. 3) says Armenian and Azeri people are Georgia’s largest distinct ethnic minorities, and the Conclusions (p. 16) report lower callback rates for non-Georgian applicants. The paper does not establish that these groups have a larger presence in Asian than European labour markets, or that negative connotations explain an Asia–Europe difference in hiring discrimination. Its Conclusions (p. 17) instead leave statistical and employer-preference explanations equally likely. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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Lippens, L., Vermeiren, S., & Baert, S. (2023) · European Economic Review · doi:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2022.104315
- Authors
- Asali, M., Pignatti, N., & Skhirtladze, S.
- Affiliations
- Tbilisi State University (GE)
- Corresponding author
- Pignatti, Norberto
- Venue
- Journal of Comparative Economics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2018-12
- Volume
- 46
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 1294-1309
- ISSN
- 0147-5967 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2765125972
- Cited by
- 19
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 1
- FWCI
- 2.67
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Comparative Economics (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Labour Market and Migration
- Keywords
- employment discrimination, ethnic discrimination, gender discrimination, labor market, callbacks, job applications, resume screening, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, post-Soviet states
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