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Taste or statistics? A correspondence study of ethnic, racial and religious labour market discrimination in Germany
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Abstract In this study we compare rates of discrimination across German-born applicants from thirty-five ethnic groups in which various racial and religious treatment groups are embedded, this study allows us to better distinguish taste and statistical sources of discrimination, and to assess the relative im... view more
In this study we compare rates of discrimination across German-born applicants from thirty-five ethnic groups in which various racial and religious treatment groups are embedded, this study allows us to better distinguish taste and statistical sources of discrimination, and to assess the relative importance of ethnicity, phenotype and religious affiliation as signals triggering discrimination. The study is based on applications to almost 6,000 job vacancies with male and female applicants in eight occupations across Germany. We test taste discrimination based on cultural value distance between groups against statistical discrimination based on average education levels and find that discrimination is mostly driven by the former. Based on this pattern, ethnic, racial and religious groups whose average values are relatively distant from the German average face the strongest discrimination. By contrast, employers do not treat minority groups with value patterns closer to Germany’s different from ethnic German applicants without a migration background.... view less
Keywords
discrimination; race; religion; ethnic group; level of education; religious group; application; minority; labor market; ethnic origin; experiment; stereotype; national stereotype; migration background; multivariate analysis; regression analysis; EVS; Federal Republic of Germany; applicant; job search
Classification
Labor Market Research
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Free Keywords
taste-based and statistical discrimination; field experiment; value distance; European Values Study Longitudinal Data File 1981-2008 (EVS 1981-2008), ZA4804 Data file Version 3.0.0
Document language
English
Publication Year
2019
Page/Pages
p. 233-252
Journal
Ethnic and Racial Studies, 42 (2019) 16
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2019.1654114
ISSN
1466-4356
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed