Magnus Carlsson & Dan-olof Rooth

Running head: BACKLASH AND HIRING

DAN - OLOF ROOTH 2015 : 1 Does Labor Market Tightness Affect Ethnic Discrimination in Hiring ?

In this study, we investigate whether ethnic discrimination depends on labor market tightness. While ranking models predict a negative relationship, the prediction of screening models is ambiguous about the direction of the relationship. Thus, the direction of the relationship is purely an empirical issue. We utilize three (but combine into two) correspondence studies of the Swedish labor marke...

Are Natives and Immigrants Different? Job Search Methods and Wages: Are Natives and Immigrants Different?

Differences in job search behaviour and access to high quality informal networks may be an important reason why immigrants fare worse than natives in many European labour markets. In this study, we design and conduct a survey of newly hired workers in the Swedish labour market to analyse if there are ethnic differences in the choice of search intensity/methods and in the successful search metho...

Revealing Taste-Based Discrimination in Hiring: A Correspondence Testing Experiment with Geographic Variation

Revealing Taste-Based Discrimination in Hiring: A Correspondence Testing Experiment with Geographic Variation The standard correspondence testing experiment does not identify whether employer prejudice drives discriminatory behavior when hiring. This article proposes a new methodology using geographic variation to explore the link between employer attitudes toward ethnic minorities and the ethn...

Employer Attitudes, the Marginal Employer and the Ethnic Wage Gap

Employer Attitudes, the Marginal Employer and the Ethnic Wage Gap Ethnic minorities have lower wages compared to the ethnic majority in most EU-countries. However, to what extent these wage gaps are the result of prejudice toward ethnic minority workers is virtually unknown. This study sets out to examine what role prejudice play in the creation of the ethnic wage gap in one of Europe’s most eg...