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- Ahmed, Ali, 1977-, et al.
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Are gay men and lesbians discriminated against in the hiring process?
- 2013
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Ingår i: Southern Economic Journal. - : Southern Economic Association (SEA). - 0038-4038 .- 2325-8012. ; 79:3, s. 565-585
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article presents the first field experiment on sexual orientation discrimination in the hiring process in the Swedish labor market. Job applications were sent to about 4000 employers in 10 different occupations in Sweden. Gender and sexual orientation were randomly assigned to applications. The results show that sexual orientation discrimination exists in the Swedish labor market. The discrimination against the gay male applicant and the lesbian applicant varied across different occupations and appears to be concentrated in the private sector. The results also show that the gay male applicant was discriminated against in typical male-dominated occupations, whereas the lesbian applicant was discriminated against in typical female-dominated occupations. Theoretical implications are discussed
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- Ahmed, Ali, et al.
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Are homosexuals discriminated against in the hiring process?
- 2012
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper presents the first field experiment on sexual orientation discrimination in the hiring process in the Swedish labor market. Job applications were sent to about 4,000 employers in 10 different occupations in Sweden. Gender and sexual orientation were randomly assigned to applications. The results show that sexual orientation discrimination exists in the Swedish labor market. The discrimination against gays and lesbian varies across different occupations and appears only in the private sector. The results also seem to suggest a new dimension of traditional gender roles; the gay applicant was discriminated against in typical male-dominated occupations whereas the lesbian applicant was discriminated against in typical female-dominated occupations. Thus, the results suggest that gays to some extent face the same obstacles on the labor market as heterosexual women.
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- Ahmed, Ali, et al.
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Are lesbians discriminated against in the rental housing market? Evidence from a correspondence testing experiment
- 2008
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Ingår i: Journal of Housing Economics. - : Elsevier BV. - 1051-1377 .- 1096-0791. ; 17:3, s. 234-238
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents a field experiment, conducted over the Internet, studying possible discrimination against lesbians in the rental housing market in Sweden. We let two fictitious couples, one heterosexual and one lesbian, apply for vacant rental apartments advertised by landlords on the Internet. We then investigated whether there were differences between the couples in the number of received call-backs, invitations to further contact, and invitations to immediate showings. Our findings show no indication of differential treatment of lesbians by landlords. A discussion relating to earlier findings is provided.
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- Ahmed, Ali, et al.
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Can discrimination in the housing market be reduced by increasing the information about the applicants?
- 2010
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Ingår i: Land Economics. - : University of Wisconsin Press. - 0023-7639 .- 1543-8325. ; 86:1, s. 79-90
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We investigate how increasing the information about applicantsaffects discrimination in the rental housing market. We letfour fictitious applicants, two with typical Arab/Muslim namesand two with typical Swedish names, use application letterscontaining different amounts of information to apply for apartmentsover the Internet in Sweden. The Arab/Muslim applicants receivedfewer responses from the landlords than did the Swedish applicants.All of the applicants gained by providing more information aboutthemselves, but the amount of discrimination against the Arab/Muslimapplicants remained unchanged, indicating that increasing theamount of information about the applicants will not reduce discrimination
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- Ahmed, Ali, et al.
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Customer and Worker Discrimination against Gay and Lesbian Business Owners : A Web-Based Experiment among Students in Sweden
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Homosexuality. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0091-8369 .- 1540-3602. ; 69:9, s. 1621-1630
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We examined customer and worker discrimination against gay and lesbian business owners using a web-based experiment conducted at a Swedish university campus. Participants (N = 1,406) were presented with a prospective restaurant establishment on the campus. They then stated whether they would be positive to such an establishment, whether they would be interested in working at the restaurant, and what their reservation wage would be if they were interested in the job. Owners’ sexual orientation was randomized across participants. Results showed that participants were less positive to a restaurant opening if the owners were lesbians, and they were less interested in an available job if the owners were gay. The participants had higher reservation wages if the owners were lesbians. In fact, the participants increased their wage demands when the number of women among the owners increased. Our study underlines that gay and lesbian people face various inequalities in society.
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- Ahmed, Ali, 1977-, et al.
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Customer discrimination in the fast food market? : experimental evidence from a Swedish university campus
- 2018
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper studies customer discrimination against fictive male and female food truck owners with Arabic names on a Swedish University campus using a web-based experiment. Students at a Swedish university campus were asked to participate in a market survey and state if they think it is a good idea to have a food truck establishment on the campus. Further, they were also asked about their own beliefs, and their beliefs about others’ willingness to pay for a baguette and a kebab sold by the food truck on the campus. Four names—one male Swede, one female Swede, one male Arab, and one female Arab—were randomly assigned to the food truck. We found no evidence of customer discrimination against food truck owners with Arabic names. In fact, the respondents were slightly more positive to a food truck establishment run by an Arabic male than by a Swedish male. We conclude that our results are representative in an environment with relatively young and highly educated customers and that customer discrimination may vary across different markets. More research in this area is needed.
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- Ahmed, Ali, 1977-, et al.
(författare)
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Customer discrimination in the fast food market? : Experimental evidence from a Swedish University campus
- 2020
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Ingår i: Migration Letters. - : Transnational Press London. - 1741-8984 .- 1741-8992. ; 17:6, s. 813-824
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents the results of a study that examined customer discrimination against fictitious male and female food truck owners with Arabic-sounding names on a Swedish university campus. In a web-based experiment, students (N = 1,406) were asked, in a market survey setting, whether they thought it was a good idea that a food truck was establishing on their campus and of their willingness to pay for a typical food truck meal. Four names-male and female Swedish-sounding names and male and female Arabic-sounding names-were randomly assigned to food trucks. We found no evidence of customer discrimination against food truck owners with Arabic-sounding names. Participants were slightly more positive to a food truck establishment run by a male with an Arabic-sounding name than a male with a Swedish-sounding name.Keywords
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- Ahmed, Ali, et al.
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Detecting discrimination against homosexuals : Evidence from a field experiment on the Internet
- 2009
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Ingår i: Economica. - : Wiley. - 0013-0427 .- 1468-0335. ; 76:303, s. 588-597
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents the first field experiment studying discrimination against homosexuals on the housing market. The study is conducted on the rental housing market in Sweden using the internet as a research platform. Two fictitious couples, one heterosexual and one male homosexual, apply for vacant rental apartments advertised by landlords on the internet. Our findings show that homosexual males are discriminated against on the Swedish housing market, since the homosexual couple gets far fewer call-backs and fewer invitations to further contacts and to showings of apartments than the heterosexual couple.
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- Ahmed, Ali, et al.
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Discrimination in the rental housing market: A field experiment on the Internet
- 2008
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Ingår i: Journal of Urban Economics. - : Elsevier BV. - 0094-1190 .- 1095-9068. ; 64:2, s. 362-372
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents a field experiment on discrimination in the housing market, using the Internet as a research platform. The procedure involved our creating three fictitious persons with distinctive sounding ethnic and gender names. These individuals applied for vacant rental apartments in Sweden that were advertised by landlords on the Internet. Our findings show that the Arabic/Muslim male received far fewer call backs, enquiries, and showings than the Swedish male. Our observations also indicate that the Swedish female met with less difficulty in terms of finding an apartment than the Swedish male. Thus, based on our findings, we conclude that ethnic, as well as gender discrimination exists in the Swedish rental housing market.
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- Ahmed, Ali, 1977-, et al.
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Diskrimineras homosexuella? Några erfarenheter från svensk ekonomisk forskning
- 2008
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Ingår i: Ekonomisk Debatt. - : Nationalekonomiska Föreningen. - 0345-2646. ; 36:8, s. 31-40
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Diskriminering av homosexuella är förbjudet i Sverige. Trots detta är den ekonomiska forskning som finns på området begränsad. I artikeln presenteras resultat från forskningsprojekt rörande homosexuellas situation på arbets- och bostadsmarknaden i Sverige. Resultaten är i linje med resultat från internationell forskning. Homosexuella män har lägre arbetsinkomster än heterosexuella män. Diskriminering och skillnader i fördelningen av marknadsarbete och hushållarbete mellan homo- och heterosexuella hushåll framförs som förklaringar till detta. Vidare diskrimineras homosexuella män på bostadsmarknaden. Beträffande kvinnor finner vi inga statistiskt signifikanta skillnader mellan homo- och heterosexuella. Avslutningsvis presenteras några tänkbara förklaringar till varför homosexuella män diskrimineras medan detta inte är fallet för homosexuella kvinnor.
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- Ahmed, Ali, 1977-, et al.
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Diskriminering mot icke-heterosexuella i anställningssituationen
- 2011
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I denna rapport presenteras resultatet från ett fältexperiment vilket undersöker förekomsten av diskriminering av homosexuella i anställningssituationen. Vi finner att såväl homosexuella män som homosexuella kvinnor diskrimineras då de söker efter lediga anställningar. Omfattningen av diskrimineringen verkar dock vara mindre än vad som framkommit i tidigare studier. Diskrimineringen förekommer framförallt inom vissa yrkeskategorier som i vår studie är koncentrerade till den privata sektorn. Vidare framkommer en ny dimension av könsskillnaderna på arbetsmarknaden då resultaten visar att homosexuella män framförallt diskrimineras då de söker anställning i mansdominerade yrken medan homosexuella kvinnor diskrimineras då de söker anställning i kvinnodominerade yrken. Resultaten pekar således mot att homosexuella män i viss utsträckning möter liknande hinder på arbetsmarknaden som heterosexuella kvinnor.
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- Ahmed, Ali, 1977-, et al.
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Diskriminering på bostadsmarknaden: effekten av att heta Mohammed
- 2007
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Ingår i: Ekonomisk Debatt. - : Nationalekonomiska Föreningen. - 0345-2646. ; 35:6, s. 34-41
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I denna artikel studeras diskriminering på svensk bostadsmarknad med hjälp av ett fältexperiment utfört på internet. I experimentet studeras såväl etnisk diskriminering som könsdiskriminering genom att tre fiktiva personer, en med ett typiskt svenskt manligt namn, en med ett typiskt svensk kvinnligt namn samt en med ett typiskt arabiskt/muslimskt manligt namn söker hyresrättslägenheter vilka utannonserats som lediga av såväl privatpersoner som företag på Blocket. se. Våra resultat visar att den arabiske/muslimske mannen möter diskriminering när han söker lägenheter. Den arabisk/muslimske mannen fick långt färre positiva svar och erbjudanden till visningar av lägenheter än den svenske mannen. Vi finner också en könsdiskriminering på bostadsmarknaden där den svenska kvinnan fick fler positiva svar och visningserbjudanden än den svenske mannen.
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- Ahmed, Ali, et al.
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Do schools discriminate against children with disabilities? A field experiment in Sweden
- 2021
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Ingår i: Education Economics. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 0964-5292 .- 1469-5782. ; 29:1, s. 3-16
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article presents the results of a field experiment in which fictitious parents of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) sent inquiries to schools in Sweden about admission of their children to the mandatory preschool class. Results show that inquiries concerning a child with no medical condition were more likely to receive an invitation for a visit and more likely to receive a promising placement response than inquiries concerning a child with ADHD and T1DM. Discrimination was more prominent in the private sector and when the child was a boy or had ADHD.
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- Ahmed, Ali, 1977-, et al.
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Do Swedish schools discriminate against children with disabilities?
- 2020
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Med hjälp av ett fältexperiment studeras diskriminering mot barn med ADHD och diabetes typ-1 vars föräldrar undersöker möjligheten för dem att få plats i den obligatoriska förskoleklassen för 6-åringar. Resultaten visar att framför allt privata utförare väljer bort barn med funktionsnedsättning och att det främst är barn med ADHD som drabbas.
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- Ahmed, Ali, 1977-, et al.
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Do Swedish schools discriminate against children with disabilities?
- 2020
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- We present results from a field experiment in which fictitious parents to children with certain types of disabilities, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), make inquires to Swedish schools about admission for their children to the compulsory preschool class. Our results reveal that Swedish schools discriminated against children with these disabilities and that discrimination is most prevalent in private schools. Private schools discriminated against boys with ADHD and T1DM and against girls with ADHD. Furthermore, public schools discriminated against girls with ADHD. One potential effect of our results is that children with disabilities are referred to less attractive schools than children with no such medical conditions. These results may have implications for the possibilities for individuals with ADHD and T1DM to succeed in the labor market in the long run.
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- Ahmed, Ali, 1977-, et al.
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Does age matter for employability? A field experiment on ageism in the Swedish labor market
- 2012
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Ingår i: Applied Economics Letters. - : Routledge. - 1350-4851 .- 1466-4291. ; 19:4, s. 403-406
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article presents the findings of the first field experiment on age discrimination in the Swedish labour market. Pairs of matched applications, one from a fictitious 31-year-old male applicant and one from a fictitious 46-year-old male applicant, were sent to employers with job openings for restaurant workers and sales assistants. Employers' responses to the applicants were then recorded. The experimental data provide clear and strong evidence of significant ageism in the Swedish labour market. On average, the younger applicant received over 3 times more responses from employers looking to hire a restaurant worker and over 4 times more responses from employers looking to hire a sales assistant than the older applicant. Therefore, the older applicant received significantly fewer invitations for interviews and job offers than the younger applicant in both occupations examined.
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- Ahmed, Ali, et al.
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Earnings differentials due to sexual orientation : A look at some possible explanations
- 2012
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Previous research has documented earnings differentials due to sexual orientation. In this paper we take a closer look at such differentials and the explanations for them. By studying yearly earnings as well as full-time monthly earnings, we are able to observe the extent to which the earnings disadvantage that is often observed for homosexual males and the earnings advantage often observed for homosexual females remain when we control for factors such as their number of hours worked. Our results suggest that male homosexuals are also at an earnings disadvantage compared to male heterosexuals after controlling for number of hours worked. This disadvantage is larger at the top than at the bottom of the earnings distribution. However, for females the earnings differential is considerably smaller when we study full-time monthly earnings than when we study yearly earnings. Thus, the results indicate that male homosexuals face obstacles on the labour market that hinder them from reaching top-level positions and high earnings levels; the earnings advantage often observed for homosexual females in previous research is more likely to stem from the fact that female homosexuals devote more time to market labour than heterosexual females do.
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- Ahmed, Ali, 1977-, et al.
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Ethnic discrimination in contacts with public authorities : a correspondence test among Swedish municipalities
- 2019
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- We present a field experiment conducted in order to explore the existence of ethnic discrimination in contact with public authorities. Two fictitious parents, one with a Swedish-sounding name and one with an Arabic-sounding name, sent email inquiries to all Swedish municipalities asking for information about preschool admission for their children. Results show that the parents were treated differently by the municipalities since the individual with the Swedish-sounding name received significantly more responses that answered the question in the inquiry than the individual with the Arabic-sounding name. Also, the individual with the Swedish-sounding name received more warm answers than the individual with the Arabic soundingname in the sense that the answer from the municipality started with a personal salutation. We conclude that ethnic discrimination is prevalent in public sector contacts and that this discrimination has implications for the integration of immigrants and their children.
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- Ahmed, Ali, et al.
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Ethnic discrimination in contacts with public authorities : a correspondence test among Swedish municipalities
- 2020
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Ingår i: Applied Economics Letters. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1350-4851 .- 1466-4291. ; 27:17, s. 1391-1394
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We present a field experiment conducted in order to explore the existence of ethnic discrimination in contact with public authorities. Two fictitious parents, one with a Swedish-sounding name and one with an Arabic-sounding name, sent email inquiries to all Swedish municipalities asking for information about preschool admission for their children. Results show that the parents were treated differently by the municipalities since the individual with the Swedish-sounding name received significantly more responses that answered the question in the inquiry than the individual with the Arabic-sounding name. Also, the individual with the Swedish-sounding name received more warm answers than the individual with the Arabic-sounding name in the sense that the answer from the municipality started with a personal salutation. We conclude that ethnic discrimination is prevalent in public sector contacts and that this discrimination has implications for the integration of immigrants and their children.
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- Ahmed, Ali, et al.
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Ethnic discrimination in the market place of small business transfers
- 2009
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Ingår i: Economics Bulletin. - 1545-2921. ; 29:4, s. 3050-3058
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents the first field experiment regarding ethnic discrimination in the market place of small business transfers. We let two fictitious prospective buyers, one with a typical Swedish name and one with a typical Arab/Muslim name, respond to advertisements of small business transfers on the Internet in Sweden. We then recorded the number contacts achieved by each fictitious buyer with sellers. We found that sellers discriminated against the buyer with an Arab/Muslim name in the sense that the buyer with an Arab/Muslim name obtained fewer contacts with sellers than did the buyer with a Swedish name.
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- Ahmed, Ali, 1977-, et al.
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Inter- and intra-household earnings differentials among homosexual and heterosexual couples
- 2011
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Ingår i: British Journal of Industrial Relations. - : Blackwell Publishing Ltd/London School of Economics. - 0007-1080 .- 1467-8543. ; 49:s2, s. s258-s278
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We present earnings differentials between homosexuals and heterosexuals. In line with previous research, we find that gay males earn less than heterosexual males, and that lesbians earn more than heterosexual females. However, when combining the individuals into households, our results are strikingly different: very small earnings differentials between gay households and heterosexual households are found. Lesbian households earn considerably less. The largest earnings inequalities between spouses are found among gay males followed by heterosexuals. Studying sexual orientation and earnings is complex, and household earnings have to be taken into consideration when conclusions are drawn.
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- Ahmed, Ali, Professor, 1977-, et al.
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Labor Market Discrimination : Method and Measurement
- 2023
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Ingår i: Elgar Encyclopedia of Labour Studies. - : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781800377530 - 9781800377547 ; , s. 106-109
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The development of methods for detecting labour market discrimination is characterized by a shift from observational data to different forms of experimental data. At the same time, there has been a shift from examining differences in treatment of groups of employees to differences in hiring.Observational data are associated with omitted variable problems. Field experiments in the form of audit and correspondence studies give better control of what is observed by both employers and the researcher. A limitation is that they can typically be employed only for certain types of (low-skill, early career) jobs and the initial (call-back) stage of the hiring process. Another is that employers’ beliefs cannot be controlled for. Natural and lab experiments can address some of these concerns. Most studies are not able to distinguish theories of between taste-based and statistical discrimination.
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- Ahmed, Ali, Professor, 1977-, et al.
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Labor market discrimination: method and measurement
- 2023
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Ingår i: Elgar Encyclopedia of Labour Studies. - : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781800377530 - 9781800377547 ; , s. 106-109
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The development of methods for detecting labour market discrimination is characterized by a shift from observational data to different forms of experimental data. At the same time, there has been a shift from examining differences in treatment of groups of employees to differences in hiring.Observational data are associated with omitted variable problems. Field experiments in the form of audit and correspondence studies give better control of what is observed by both employers and the researcher. A limitation is that they can typically be employed only for certain types of (low-skill, early career) jobs and the initial (call-back) stage of the hiring process. Another is that employers’ beliefs cannot be controlled for. Natural and lab experiments can address some of these concerns. Most studies are not able to distinguish theories of between taste-based and statistical discrimination.
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- Ahmed, Ali M., Professor, 1977-, et al.
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Are people fuzzy about who they work with? : An experimental test of Becker’s coworker discrimination hypothesis
- 2021
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Ingår i: The Social Science Journal. - Amsterdam : Taylor & Francis. - 0362-3319 .- 1873-5355. ; 58:4, s. 477-483
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We used an experiment to investigate whether people’s decisions over employment opportunities are affected by the ethnicity and sex of their potential future coworkers. University students (N = 1,406) were asked to state the lowest hourly wage rate at which they would be willing to accept a job on a campus food truck, where they would work alongside the food truck owner. The ethnicity and sex of the food truck owners were randomized across participants. Results showed no signs of coworker prejudice in terms of the probability of being interested in the job and reservation wage.
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- Ahmed, Ali M., Professor, 1977-, et al.
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Customer discrimination in the fast food market : a web-based experiment on a Swedish university campus
- 2020
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Ingår i: Migration Letters. - London, United Kingdom : Transnational Press London. - 1741-8984 .- 1741-8992. ; 17:6, s. 813-824
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents the results of a study that examined customer discrimination against fictitious male and female food truck owners with Arabic-sounding names on a Swedish university campus. In a web-based experiment, students (N = 1,406) were asked, in a market survey setting, whether they thought it was a good idea that a food truck was establishing on their campus and of their willingness to pay for a typical food truck meal. Four names—male and female Swedish-sounding names and male and female Arabic-sounding names—were randomly assigned to food trucks. We found no evidence of customer discrimination against food truck owners with Arabic-sounding names. Participants were slightly more positive to a food truck establishment run by a male with an Arabic-sounding name than a male with a Swedish-sounding name.
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- Ahmed, Ali M., Professor, 1977-, et al.
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Diskriminerar kunder utrikes födda företagare? Resultat från ett webb-baserat experiment
- 2018
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Ingår i: Ekonomisk Debatt. - Stockholm, Sweden : Research Institute of Industrial Economics. - 0345-2646. ; 46:7, s. 25-32
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Vi presenterar resultat från ett experiment utfört på ett universitetscampus.Deltagarna fick se bilder av olika food-trucks och svara på om de tyckte det varen god idé att en food-truck etablerade sig på campusområdet samt ange sinbetalningsvilja för olika varor. Deltagarna i experimentet var mer positivatill en etablering av en food-truck ägd av en man med arabiskt namn än till enetablering av en food-truck ägd av en man med svenskt namn. Resultaten är avintresse för integrationspolitiken, då de visar att egenföretagare med ursprung iMellanöstern inte diskrimineras i en bransch där de ofta är verksamma.
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- Ahmed, Ali M., Professor, 1977-, et al.
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Diskriminering genomsyrar inte hela samhället
- 2018
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Ingår i: Dagens Samhälle. - Stockholm, Sweden : Dagens Samhälle AB. - 1652-6511.
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- Ahmed, Ali M., Professor, 1977-, et al.
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Personer med arabiska namn diskrimineras av kommuner
- 2019
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Ingår i: Dagens Nyheter. - Stockholm : Dagens Nyheter AB. - 1101-2447. ; :2019-03-31
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Utrikes födda personer särbehandlas i den skriftliga kontakten med landets kommuner. Det visar vårt experiment, där en man med svenskklingande namn fick bättre bemötande och mer information än en man med arabiskt namn. Diskrimineringen kan ge konsekvenser i form av sämre möjligheter till förskoleplats, skriver nationalekonomerna Ali Ahmed och Mats Hammarstedt.
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- Ahmed, Ali M., 1977, et al.
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Sexual Orientation and Earnings in Sweden
- 2008
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper presents a study of earnings differentials between homosexual individuals who are living in civil unions and married heterosexual individuals based on register data from Sweden. The results show that gay men are at an earnings disadvantage as compared to male heterosexuals. This earnings differential amounts to between 10 and 15 per cent. The earnings differential is smaller in metropolitan areas compared to nonmetropolitan areas. Regarding females, the results show that the earnings differential between lesbians and heterosexual women is very small. The existence of different kinds of discrimination as well as the fact that families specialize in market and household labour within households are put forward as plausible explanations for the results.
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- Ahmed, Ali M., Professor, 1977-, et al.
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Skolor ratar barn med adhd och diabetes
- 2020
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Ingår i: Svenska Dagbladet. - Stockholm, Sweden : Svenska Dagbladet AB & Co.. - 1101-2412.
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- Ahmed, Ali, 1977-, et al.
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Perceptions of gay, lesbian, and heterosexual domestic violence among undergraduates in Sweden
- 2013
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Ingår i: International Journal of Conflict and Violence. - 1864-1385. ; 7:2, s. 249-260
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- An experimental study of perceptions about gay, lesbian, and heterosexual domestic violence in Sweden. Undergraduate students (N = 1009) read one of eight fictitious scenarios of domestic violence in married couple relationships, where sexual orientation, sex of victim and batterer, and severity of violence were varied. Perceptions of seriousness of the described incident and attitudes toward women, gays and lesbians were measured. Domestic violence was perceived as more serious in cases where: the respondent was a woman, the batterer was a man, the victim was a woman, or the battering was severe. Wife-battering in a heterosexual relationship was considered the most serious case in both the less and more severe battering scenario. Where battering was less severe, domestic violence in gay and lesbian relationships was perceived as more serious than heterosexual husband-battering; this difference disappeared in the severe battering scenario. Negative attitudes toward gays, lesbians, and women were associated with less concern about domestic violence in all types of relationships. The findings suggest that stereotypes about gays, lesbians, and women affect perceptions of domestic violence, but mainly when violence is less severe.
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Perceptions of gay, lesbian, and heterosexual domestic violence among undergraduates in Sweden
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper presents an experimental study of perceptions about gay, lesbian, and heterosexual domestic violence in Sweden. More than 1,000 participants were asked to read one out of eight possible fictitious scenarios of domestic violence in married couple relationships and subsequently respond to a questionnaire. Sexual orientation, victims’ and batterers’ gender, and severity of the violence varied across the different scenarios. The clearest result of this study was that participants perceived domestic violence to be significantly more serious when a man battered his wife than in any other case (i.e., when a woman battered her husband, when a gay man battered his husband, or when a lesbian woman battered her wife). In all types of relationships, participants matched their perceptions of domestic violence to the level of severity of the violence and participants with more negative attitudes toward women perceived domestic violence as less serious. Female participants were more concerned about lesbian domestic violence than male participants. Attitudes toward gays and lesbians mattered little for the perceptions of domestic violence.
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Sexual orientation and earnings: A register data-based approach to identify homosexuals
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Ingår i: Journal of Population Economics. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0933-1433 .- 1432-1475. ; 23:3, s. 835-849
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- This paper examines earnings differentials between homo- and heterosexual individuals by identifying sexual orientation with the help of information from register data. Register data enable us to avoid the misclassifications of sexual orientation often mentioned as a potential bias in survey-based studies. The results show that gay men are at an earnings disadvantage as compared to male heterosexuals while the earnings differential between lesbians and heterosexual women is very small. Our results are in line with results from previous research but are more reliable since we use a more reliable measure of sexual orientation than previous research.
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- Ahmed, Ali, 1977-, et al.
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Sexual orientation and full-time monthly earnings, by public and private sector : Evidence from Swedish register data
- 2013
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Ingår i: Review of Economics of the Household. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1569-5239 .- 1573-7152. ; 11:1, s. 83-108
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- In this paper we explore annual earnings as well as full-time monthlyearnings differentials resulting from sexual orientation. We observe that gay malesare at an earnings disadvantage compared to male heterosexuals regardless of whichearnings measure we use. This earnings disadvantage is found to be larger when wecompare gay and heterosexual males who are working full-time. In addition, thedisadvantage is larger in the private than in the public sector. Lesbians, however,earn more than heterosexual females. This earnings advantage is considerablysmaller when we study full-time monthly rather than annual earnings but an earningsadvantage for lesbians at the top of the earnings distribution is documentedregardless of which earnings measure we use. In addition, lesbians are doing betterthan female heterosexuals in the public sector. To sum up, the results indicate thatgay males face obstacles on the labor market that hinder them from reaching toplevelpositions and high earnings. The earnings advantage observed for lesbians islikely to stem from the fact that lesbians devote more time to market work thanheterosexual females.
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Sexual orientation and occupational rank
- 2011
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Ingår i: Economics Bulletin. - 1545-2921. ; 31:3, s. 2422-2433
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- This paper presents a study of differences in occupational rank between gay and heterosexual males as well as between lesbian and heterosexual females. We estimate different specifications of an ordered probit model on register data from Sweden. Our data consist of married heterosexual men and women and homosexual men and women living in civil unions. We find that homosexual men have a lower probability of working in a profession demanding a longer university education or a management profession than heterosexual men. In contrast, we find that homosexual women are more likely than heterosexual women to work in such professions.
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"Skolor ratar barn med adhd och diabetes"
- 2020
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Ingår i: Svenska Dagbladet. - 1101-2412. ; :2020-04-26
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Barn med adhd och diabetes typ 1 väljs bort när föräldrar kontaktar svenska skolor och frågar om möjligheterna att få plats i den obligatoriska förskolan för sexåriga barn. Det skriver tre forskare.
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The effect of subtle religious representations on cooperation
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Ingår i: International Journal of Social Economics. - : Emerald. - 0306-8293 .- 1758-6712. ; 38:11, s. 900-910
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- The purpose of this paper is to investigate how subtle religious representations affect prosocial behavior. The authors study the impact of religious representations on prosocial behavior in terms of cooperation in a one‐shot/three‐person public goods game.Design/methodology/approachThe authors used the scrambled sentence task to prime participants with religious words before they were asked to make a one‐shot/three‐person public goods game decision.FindingsBoth in the raw data and when controlling for factors such as age, gender and religious beliefs, the authors found that priming of religious representations increased cooperation in the experiment, that is, increased contributions to the public good. The authors found no significant interaction effects between priming and self‐reported measures of religiosity, suggesting that the priming effect was present among both self‐reported religious and nonreligious participants. Self‐reported measures of religiosity were not correlated with cooperation in this study.Originality/valueThe paper adds to the growing body of experimental economics literature that has studied self‐reported measures of religiosity alongside behavior in different economic games. This study contributes to the literature by examining the effect of subtle influences of religion on cooperation. Also, in contrast to previous economic literature, the paper examines the direct impact of religion as an independent variable on cooperation.
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Två av tre klubbar välkomnade barn med typ-1 diabetes
- 2023
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Ingår i: Altinget. - : Altinget. ; :2023-12-13
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Vi vet sedan tidigare att exempelvis barn med typ-1 diabetes och ADHD-diagnos har sämre möjlighet än andra barn att välja skola. Hur ser situationen ut för dessa barn på andra områden? Det frågar sig professorerna Ali Ahmed och Mats Hammarstedt som presenterar en ny fältstudie.
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Type 1 Diabetes and Youth Sports in Sweden : A Field Experiment on Discrimination
- 2023
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This study evaluated discrimination against children with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) in Swedish sports clubs through a field experiment. Two fictitious fathers sent emails to 193 top-division clubs in football, floorball, ice hockey, and handball, one disclosing his son’s T1DM condition. The investigation focused on disparities in clubs’ responses and information provided. Results indicated no significant difference in positive or comprehensive responses between emails mentioning T1DM and those that did not, suggesting minimal bias at initial contact and an inclusive approach by the clubs towards children with T1DM.
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