Labour Market Discrimination against Former Juvenile Delinquents: Evidence from a Field Experiment
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- Stijn Baert & Elsy Verhofstadt, 2015. "Labour market discrimination against former juvenile delinquents: evidence from a field experiment," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 47(11), pages 1061-1072, March.
- S. Baert & E. Verhofstadt, 2013. "Labour market discrimination against former juvenile delinquents: evidence from a field experiment," Working Papers of Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Belgium 13/852, Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration.
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Keywords
hiring discrimination; field experiments; juvenile delinquency; transitions in youth;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
- J2 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor
- J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EXP-2014-01-24 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-LAB-2014-01-24 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-LMA-2014-01-24 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
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