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

• 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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SOCIAL SCIENCES Business and economics Economics

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP Ekonomi Nationalekonomi

Nationalekonomi

Economics

Ethnic discrimination

Exit from unemployment

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Business and economics

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