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Hiring People-like-Yourself: A Representation of Discrimination on the Job Market

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Ariane Szafarz () (Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Business School and DULBEA, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels)

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This paper offers a new representation of discrimination on the job market based on the most recent findings in the socio-psychological academic literature about human behaviour. Put it simply, it is assumed that the agents prefer working with people like themselves. This "affinity" principle is modelled through a distance between an individual (the candidate for a job) and the staff of the firm. Contrary to the classical view according to which discrimination results from asymmetric information, this new model provides a rationale for the presence of discriminative attitudes on the job market even when full information is available on the skill levels of all candidates for a working position.

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Paper provided by Université libre de Bruxelles, Department of Applied Economics (DULBEA) in its series Working Papers DULBEA with number 07-21.RS.

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Date of creation: Nov 2007
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Keywords: discrimination; affinity; skill.;

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J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing
J70 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - General

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