Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/318426 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Citation: 
[Journal:] Journal of Population Economics [ISSN:] 1432-1475 [Volume:] 38 [Issue:] 1 [Article No.:] 16 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Berlin, Heidelberg [Year:] 2025
Publisher: 
Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
To explain the conflicting findings on hiring discrimination against applicants in a same-sex marriage, we explore the perceptual drivers behind employers' evaluations. Therefore, we conduct a vignette experiment among recruiters, for which we test systematically selected stereotypes from earlier studies. We find causal evidence for distinct effects of same-sex marriage on candidate perceptions and interview probabilities. In particular, interview probabilities are positively (negatively) associated with the stereotype of women (men) married to a same-sex partner as being more (less) pleasant to work with compared to candidates in a different-sex marriage. In addition, interview chances are negatively associated with the stereotype of candidates in a same-sex marriage as being more outspoken. Furthermore, our data align well with the idea of a concentrated discrimination account, whereby a minority of employers who hold negative attitudes towards individuals in same-sex marriages are responsible for most instances of hiring discrimination.
Subjects: 
Sexual orientation
Signalling theory
Statistical discrimination
Taste-based discrimination
Hiring experiment
JEL: 
C38
J12
J71
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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