Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/261236 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
Cardiff Economics Working Papers No. E2022/8
Publisher: 
Cardiff University, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff
Abstract: 
Through a correspondence study, this paper investigates whether employers discriminate job applicants based on their living conditions. Exploiting the natural setting provided by a Rapid Re-housing Program, we sent 1,347 job applications for low-qualified front-desk jobs in Brno, Czech Republic. The resumes exogenously differed in only one main aspect represented by the address of the applicants, signaling both the quality of the neighborhood and the quality of the housing conditions in which they were living. We found that while the higher quality of the district has a strong effect in increasing the hiring chances (+20%) the actual improvement of the living conditions standards, per se, does not generate any significant positive effect.
Subjects: 
correspondence study
labor discrimination
housing conditions
Rapid Re-housin
JEL: 
C93
J08
J71
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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