Does ethnic discrimination vary across minority groups? Evidence from a field experiment

Publication type

Journal Article

Authors

Publication date

August 15, 2012

Summary:

We conduct a large-scale field experiment to measure labour market discrimination in Australia, one quarter of whose population was born overseas. To denote ethnicity, we use distinctively Anglo-Saxon, Indigenous, Italian, Chinese and Middle Eastern names. We compare multiple ethnic groups, rather than a single minority as in most other studies. In all cases we applied for entry-level jobs and submitted a CV indicating that the candidate attended high school in Australia. We find significant differences in callback rates: ethnic minority candidates would need to apply for more jobs in order to receive the same number of interviews. These differences vary systematically across ethnic groups.

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Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics

Volume and page numbers

Volume: 74 , p.547 -573

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0084.2011.00664.x

ISSN

3059049

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