Does Labor Market Tightness Affect Ethnic Discrimination in Hiring?
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Keywords
correspondence studies; the business cycle; labor market tightness; ethnic discrimination; hiring discrimination; field experiments; ranking models; screening models;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
- J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
- J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EUR-2018-02-26 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-EXP-2018-02-26 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-HME-2018-02-26 (Heterodox Microeconomics)
- NEP-LMA-2018-02-26 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
- NEP-LTV-2018-02-26 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
- NEP-URE-2018-02-26 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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