Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/290059 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IDB Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-01334
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC
Abstract: 
We conducted a paired correspondence experiment in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to measure the extent of labor market discrimination in hiring against slum dwellers. We sent 4,290 online pairs of fictitious job applications of otherwise observationally equivalent individuals who differed in a single attribute: place of residence, either a slum or not. We found that job applicants living in slums received nearly 28 percent fewer callbacks than other applicants. We observe discrimination across jobs that require a university degree, with discrimination being concentrated in administrative and software-related occupations. We observed discrimination against both men and women living in slums. Discrimination also varied by occupation. Discrimination against slum dwellers is an invisible barrier that affects their employment probability, ultimately reducing their likelihood of graduating from poverty.
Subjects: 
Correspondence study
Discrimination
JEL: 
O1
O18
O54
J71
J78
J15
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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