Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/177089 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 11285
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Several studies using observational data suggest that ethnic discrimination increases in downturns of the economy. We investigate whether ethnic discrimination depends on labor market tightness using data from correspondence studies. We utilize three correspondence studies of the Swedish labor market and two different measures of labor market tightness. These two measures produce qualitatively similar results, and, opposite to the observational studies, suggests that ethnic discrimination in hiring decreases in downturns of the economy.
Subjects: 
hiring discrimination
ethnic discrimination
labor market tightness
the business cycle
correspondence studies
field experiments
ranking models
screening models
JEL: 
C93
J15
J21
J71
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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