Is Ethnic Discrimination Due to Distaste or Statistics?
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- Baert, Stijn & De Pauw, Ann-Sophie, 2014. "Is ethnic discrimination due to distaste or statistics?," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 125(2), pages 270-273.
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Keywords
economics of ethnic minorities; hiring discrimination; taste discrimination; statistical discrimination;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- J60 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - General
- C92 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Group Behavior
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EXP-2014-07-28 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-LAB-2014-07-28 (Labour Economics)
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