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Ethnic Discrimination in Germany’s Labour Market: A Field Experiment
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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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- Authors
- Kaas, L., & Manger, C.
- Affiliations
- University of Konstanz (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Kaas, Leo
- Manger, Christian
- ORCID
- Manger, Christian
- Venue
- German Economic Review
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- 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 › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › 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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