Discrimination against Turkish minorities in Germany and the Netherlands: field experimental evidence on the effect of diagnostic information on labour market outcomes

Thijssen, Lex; Lancee, Bram; Veit, Susanne; Yemane, Ruta

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2019.1622793

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“…Discrimination, either in refusal to hire or in job assignments, no doubt occurs as well (see the extended discussion on claims-making as discrimination in hiring in Tomaskovic-Devey and Avent-Holt [2019]). There certainly is evidence of such discrimination in the German context for immigrants (Luthra 2013;Thijssen et al 2019), women (Kübler, Schmid, and Stüber 2018), mothers (Hipp 2020), and some religious groups (Di Stasio et al 2019). Applying for a job is a claim on a position, and such claims-making likely reflects the cultural content of status distinctions as much, or perhaps even more, than status-based interactional power.…”

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Categorical Distinctions and Claims-Making: Opportunity, Agency, and Returns from Wage Negotiations

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In this article, we examine wage negotiations as a specific instance of claims-making, predicting that the capacity to make a claim is first a function of the position, rather than the person, and that lower-status actors—women, migrants, fixed-term, part-time, and unskilled workers—are all more likely to be in positions where negotiation is not possible. At the same time, subordinate-status actors may be less likely to make claims even where negotiation is possible, and when they do make wage claims they may receive lower or no returns to negotiation. Analyses of wage negotiations by more than 2,400 German employees largely confirm these theoretical expectations, although the patterns of opportunity, agency, and economic returns vary by categorical status. All low-status actors are more likely to be in jobs where negotiation is not possible. Women, people in lower-class jobs, and people with temporary contracts are less likely to negotiate even when given the opportunity. Regarding returns, agency in wage claims does not seem to improve the wages of women, migrants, or working-class individuals. The advice to “lean-in” will not substantially lower wage inequalities for everyone, although men who lean in do benefit relative to men who do not.

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Categorical Distinctions and Claims-Making: Opportunity, Agency, and Returns from Wage Negotiations

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“…The need for a focus on prejudice against people of Middle Eastern descent (as an ethnic proxy for Muslims) is furthermore highlighted by individual ethnic majority attitudes such as (a) half of surveyed Dutch people wanting to stop immigration from Muslim countries (De Hond, 2013), by (b) the fact that majority group contact with the Muslim minority group is lower than with other minority groups (Koops et al, 2017), and (c) the increasing amount of support for a political party with explicit anti-Islam attitudes (i.e., 10% of the votes during elections for the House of Representatives in 2012 and 13% of the votes in 2017; Kiesraad, 2012Kiesraad, , 2017. This need is also highlighted by patterns in Dutch society such as (a) high levels of discrimination that people of Moroccan and Turkish descent experience on the labor market (Ramos et al, 2019;Thijssen et al, 2019), (b) an increasing number of attacks on Mosques since 2011 (Van der Valk & Törnberg, 2017), and (c) public discourse that is particularly hostile toward Muslims (Siebers & Dennissen, 2015).…”

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Interethnic Prejudice Against Muslims Among White Dutch Children

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Emmen

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Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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Interethnic prejudice in children has been studied mostly in the United States, but less often in Europe, where the public discourse is increasingly negative about ethnic minorities, especially the Muslim minority. This study examined in-group favoritism (White preference) and out-group rejection of children of Middle Eastern descent (representing the Muslim minority) among White children in the Netherlands. Social preference for and rejection of children of Middle Eastern descent are compared with preference for and rejection of Black children. Social preference and rejection were measured using a task in which participants were presented with pictures of children with different ethnic appearances, and asked to select who they wanted to (not) play with, (not) sit next to, and invite for their birthday party. In addition, maternal implicit prejudice against people of Middle Eastern descent and explicit attitudes toward their children’s interethnic contact were assessed. The study included 140 children aged 6 to 8 years ( M = 7.26, SD = 0.77) and their mothers. The results reveal both in-group favoritism and out-group rejection. The Middle Eastern out-group was preferred less than the Black out-group. Reporting absolutely no reservations about children’s interethnic contact by mothers was associated with less rejection of children of Middle Eastern descent. Findings reveal that young children already show interethnic prejudice and that particularly people of Middle Eastern descent are devalued. The results show that maternal acceptance of child interethnic contact seems to play a role, and provide starting points for further investigation of the relation between parental and child interethnic attitudes.

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“…Second, some of the highest levels of racial-ethnic discrimination in hiring among European and North American countries are found in France and Sweden (Quillian et al 2019). Additional work from the excellent cross-national harmonized series of audit studies on racial-ethnic discrimination across Europe and the United States is likely to provide even more nuanced analyses (Di Statsio et al 2019; Lancee 2019; Lancee et al 2019; Larsen and Di Stasio 2019; Ramos, Thijssen and Coenders 2019; Thijssen et al 2019; Veit and Thijssen 2019; Yemane and Fernández-Reino 2019).…”

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Understanding the “How” and “Why” Aspects of Racial-Ethnic Discrimination: A Multimethod Approach to Audit Studies

Gaddis

2019

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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Researchers have used audit studies to provide causal evidence of racial discrimination for nearly 60 years. Although audits are an excellent methodological tool to investigate the “what,” “where,” and “when” aspects of racial-ethnic discrimination, audits are less appropriate, by themselves, to investigate the “how” and “why” aspects of racial-ethnic discrimination. In this article, I review why audit studies are necessary to study racial-ethnic discrimination, the evidence from audit studies, and their limitations. I then argue that scholars should adopt a multimethod approach to audit studies to move from documenting the existence of racial-ethnic discrimination to examining how and why racial-ethnic discrimination occurs. Adoption of this multimethod approach will result in a deeper understanding of racial-ethnic discrimination with the potential to shape both opinions and policy surrounding discrimination.

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Discrimination against Turkish minorities in Germany and the Netherlands: field experimental evidence on the effect of diagnostic information on labour market outcomes

Cited by 51 publications

References 45 publications

Categorical Distinctions and Claims-Making: Opportunity, Agency, and Returns from Wage Negotiations

Categorical Distinctions and Claims-Making: Opportunity, Agency, and Returns from Wage Negotiations

Interethnic Prejudice Against Muslims Among White Dutch Children

Understanding the “How” and “Why” Aspects of Racial-Ethnic Discrimination: A Multimethod Approach to Audit Studies

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