A field experiment investigating age discrimination in four European labour markets
Abstract
In a field experiment investigating age discrimination, pairs of men, aged 27 and 47, inquired about employment as waiters in towns across England, France, Germany and Spain. Statistically significant discrimination against the older waiter was found in all four countries, but it was considerably higher in France and Spain than in England and Germany.
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In the study by Riach (2015), older candidates were 47 years old, while younger candidates were 27 years old, creating a 20-year age gap between the treatment group and the control group.
“A representative example is the study by Riach (2015), where older candidates were 47 years old, while younger candidates were 27 years old, creating a 20-year age gap between the treatment group and the control group.”
From The state of hiring discrimination: A meta-analysis of (almost) all recent correspondence experiments (2023) · cites this paper as Riach (2015)
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Lippens, L., Vermeiren, S., & Baert, S. (2023) · European Economic Review · doi:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2022.104315
- Authors
- Riach, P. A.
- Affiliations
- IZA - Institute of Labor Economics (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Riach, Peter A.
- Venue
- International Review of Applied Economics
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2015-03-12
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 608-619
- ISSN
- 0269-2171 (ISSN-L)
- 1465-3486
- OpenAlex
- W1979883843
- Cited by
- 29
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 3 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 2
- FWCI
- 7.18
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- International Review of Applied Economics (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research
- Social Sciences › Demography › Retirement, Disability, and Employment
- Social Sciences › Law › Discrimination and Equality Law
- Keywords
- age discrimination, labor market, older workers, job applications, cross-national comparison, hiring discrimination
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