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Employers Discriminate Against Immigrants and Criminal Offenders – Experimental Evidence
Economics Letters. 2019. Vol. 174. P. 140–143.
Walkowitz G.
We experimentally study the causal effect of being an immigrant or previously convicted on the hiring
preferences and wage payments of employers. We find evidence for statistical discrimination against
immigrants. Criminal offenders suffer from more severe and taste discrimination.
Keywords: experimentimmigrantsDiffusion on innovations, labor market discrimination based on ethnicityCriminal offenders
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