Does Racial and Ethnic Discrimination Vary Across Minority Groups? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Abstract

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Getting grey hairs in the labour market. An alternative experiment on age discrimination

“…All presented positive call-back ratios are statistically significantly different from 1, at least at the 5% significance level. Moreover, the levels of age discrimination are higher than the levels of discrimination based on ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation as estimated by other field experiments in the same country in the same period (Ahmed et al, 2013;Bendick, 1996;Berson, 2012, Bertrand andMullainathan, 2004;Booth and Leigh, 2010;Booth et al, 2012;Carlsson and Rooth, 2007;Petit, 2007;Riach and Rich, 2006b;Wood et al, 2009). …”

Do employers discriminate by gender? A field experiment in female-dominated occupations

“…Another purpose of the study was to test for racial and ethnic discrimination (for results by race and a more detailed discussion of the methodology, see Booth, Leigh, and Varganova 2009). Accordingly, our sample comprises Anglo-Saxon names, and three groups of nonAnglo names -Indigenous, Italian, and Middle-Eastern.…”

Immigrant Indian Professional‟s Experiences with Perceived Discrimination in the Australian Workpl

“…Booth, Leigh and Varganova [15] provided empirical evidence that immigrants who have accents and nonAnglicised names, especially Asian immigrants, are treated unfavourably in the Australian labour market. Bias regarding names can represent an obstacle for immigrants and exclude them from entry into organisations [16].…”