In your face: a comparative field experiment on racial discrimination in Europe

IF 3.2 2区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Socio-Economic Review Pub Date : 2023-03-25 DOI:10.1093/ser/mwad009

Javier G Polavieja, Bram Lancee, María Ramos, Susanne Veit, Ruta Yemane

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Abstract

We present the first large-scale comparative field experiment on appearance-based racial discrimination in hiring conducted in Europe. Using a harmonized methodology, we sent fictitious résumés to real vacancies in Germany, the Netherlands and Spain, randomly varying applicants’ ethnic ancestry (signaled foremost by name) and applicants’ racial appearance (signaled by photographs). Applicants are young-adult country nationals born to parents from over 40 different countries of ancestry (N = 12 783). We examine average differences in callback across four phenotypic groups and four regions of ancestry and present the first cross-country comparable estimates of appearance-based racial discrimination reported in the field-experimental literature. We find that applicants’ phenotype has a significant and independent effect on employers’ responses in Germany and the Netherlands, whereas in Spain we only find evidence of hiring discrimination for particular combinations of phenotype and ancestry, which suggests a less direct and more complex effect of phenotype in this country. Implications are discussed.

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当着你的面:欧洲种族歧视的比较实地实验

我们介绍了在欧洲进行的第一个关于招聘中基于外表的种族歧视的大规模现场比较实验。使用统一的方法，我们将虚构的简历发送到德国、荷兰和西班牙的真实职位空缺中，随机改变申请人的种族血统（最重要的是名字）和申请人的种族外貌（照片）。申请人是父母来自40多个不同血统国家的年轻成年国民（N = 12 783）。我们研究了四个表型组和四个祖先区域回调的平均差异，并提出了实地实验文献中首次报道的基于外表的种族歧视的跨国可比估计。我们发现，在德国和荷兰，申请人的表型对雇主的反应有着显著而独立的影响，而在西班牙，我们只发现了表型和血统特定组合的招聘歧视证据，这表明在这个国家，表型的影响不那么直接，也更复杂。讨论了影响。

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