Ethnicity and obesity: evidence of implicit work performance stereotypes in Sweden

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Ethnicity and obesity: evidence of implicit work performance stereotypes in Sweden

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Jens, Agerström () (Department of psychology, Lund University)
Carlsson, Rickard () (Department of economics, Kalmar University)
Rooth, Dan-Olof () (Department of economics, Kalmar University)

Abstract

Using the Implicit Association Test, we investigate whether employers and students possess implicit and explicit negative attitudes and implicit performance stereotypes toward Arab-Muslim men relative to native Swedish men. We also examine if employers and students have implicit and explicit performance stereotypes toward obese individuals relative to people of normal weight. The results demonstrate that employers and students both implicitly and explicitly associate Arab-Muslim men with less work performance. Also, they have more implicit negative attitudes toward this ethnic group. Obese individuals are both implicitly and explicitly associated with less work performance compared with normal-weight individuals.

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Paper provided by IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation in its series Working Paper Series with number 2007:20.

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Date of creation: 31 Aug 2007
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NEP-ALL-2007-09-24 (All new papers)
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Dan-Olof Rooth, 2007. "Evidence of Unequal Treatment in Hiring against Obese Applicants: A Field Experiment," IZA Discussion Papers 2775, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
Carlsson, Magnus & Rooth, Dan-Olof, 2007. "Evidence of ethnic discrimination in the Swedish labor market using experimental data," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 14(4), pages 716-729, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

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