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Pré-Publication, Document De Travail (Working Paper) Année : 2019

When Correspondence Studies Fail to Detect Hiring Discrimination

Stéphane Carcillo
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Andreea Minea
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Marie-Anne Valfort
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Résumé

Based on a correspondence study conducted in France, we show that fictitious low-skilled applicants in the private sector are half as likely to be called back by the employers when they are of North African rather than French origin. By contrast, the origin of the fictitious applicants does not impact their callback rate in the public sector. We run a survey revealing that recruiters display similarly strong negative discriminatory attitudes towards North Africans in both sectors. We set out a model explaining why differences in discrimination at the stage of invitation for interviews can arise when recruiters display identical discriminatory attitudes in both sectors. The estimation of this model shows that discrimination at the invitation stage is a poor predictor of discrimination at the hiring stage. This suggests that many correspondence studies may fail to detect hiring discrimination and its extent.
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hal-03881646 , version 1 (01-12-2022)

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Pierre Cahuc, Stéphane Carcillo, Andreea Minea, Marie-Anne Valfort. When Correspondence Studies Fail to Detect Hiring Discrimination. 2019. ⟨hal-03881646⟩
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