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Ethnic Discrimination in Germany’s Labour Market: A Field Experiment

Kaas, Leo, Manger, Christian·2012·German Economic Review

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Abstract This paper studies ethnic discrimination in Germany’s labour market with a correspondence test. We send two similar applications to each of 528 advertisements for student internships, one with a Turkish-sounding and one with a German-sounding name. A German name raises the average probability of a callback by about 14%. Differential treatment is particularly strong and significant in smaller firms at which the applicant with the German name receives 24% more callbacks. Discrimination disappears when we restrict our sample to applications including reference letters which contain favourable information about the candidate’s personality. We interpret this finding as evidence for statistical discrimination.

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  • Kaas & Manger (2012) found no discrimination in a field experimental study in Germany when reference letters for applicants include positive information about the applicants.

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Authors
Kaas, L., & Manger, C.
Affiliations
University of Konstanz (DE)
Corresponding author
  • Kaas, Leo
  • Manger, Christian
Venue
German Economic Review
Published
2012-02-01
Volume
13
Issue
1
Pages
1-20
ISSN
  • 1465-6485 (ISSN-L)
  • 1468-0475
OpenAlex
W1906367169
Cited by
509
References
33
Citations by year
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FWCI
86.78
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • German Economic Review (publishedVersion)
  • KOPS (University of Konstanz) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research
  • Social Sciences › Safety Research › Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
Keywords
ethnic discrimination, employment discrimination, correspondence test, name-based discrimination, callbacks, student internships, firm size, letters of recommendation, statistical discrimination, Germany

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