The Effect of Photos and a Local-Sounding Name on Discrimination against Ethnic Minorities in Austria
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Keywords
hiring; discrimination; migration; correspondence testing;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
- J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
- J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LMA-2021-07-19 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
- NEP-MIG-2021-07-19 (Economics of Human Migration)
- NEP-SEA-2021-07-19 (South East Asia)
- NEP-SOC-2021-07-19 (Social Norms and Social Capital)
- NEP-URE-2021-07-19 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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