Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/207478 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 12653
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Based on a correspondence study conducted in France, we show that fictitious low-skilled applicants in the private sector are half as likely to be called back by the employers when they are of North African rather than French origin. By contrast, the origin of the fictitious applicants does not impact their callback rate in the public sector. We run a survey revealing that recruiters display similarly strong negative discriminatory attitudes towards North Africans in both sectors. We set out a model explaining why differences in discrimination at the stage of invitation for interviews can arise when recruiters display identical discriminatory attitudes in both sectors. The estimation of this model shows that discrimination at the invitation stage is a poor predictor of discrimination at the hiring stage. This suggests that many correspondence studies may fail to detect hiring discrimination and its extent.
Subjects: 
discrimination
correspondance studies
public sector
JEL: 
J45
J70
J71
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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