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An Experimental Investigation of Age Discrimination in the French Labour Market

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Peter A. Riach () (IZA Bonn (Research Fellow))
Judith Rich () (University of Portsmouth and IZA Bonn)

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In a field experiment of age discrimination, pairs of men aged twenty-seven and forty-seven, inquired, by email, about employment as waiters in twenty four French towns. The rate of net discrimination found against the older French waiter, corresponds to the highest rates ever recorded anywhere, by written tests, for racial discrimination. Discrimination was higher in Paris than in the rest of France.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 2522.

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Keywords: age; discrimination; employment; field experiment; hiring;

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J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing
C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments

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  1. Gary Charness & MARIE-CLAIRE VILLEVAL, 2008. "Cooperation and Competition in Intergenerational Experiments in," University of California at Santa Barbara, Economics Working Paper Series 08-08, Department of Economics, UC Santa Barbara. [Downloadable!]
  2. Gary Charness & Marie-Claire Villeval, 2009. "Cooperation and Competition in Intergenerational Experiments in the Field and in the Laboratory," Post-Print halshs-00371984_v1, HAL. [Downloadable!]
  3. Peter A. Riach & Judith Rich, 2007. "An Experimental Investigation of Age Discrimination in the Spanish Labour Market," IZA Discussion Papers 2654, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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