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Indiscriminate Discrimination: A Correspondence Test for Ethnic Homophily in the Chicago Labor Market

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Numerous field experiments have demonstrated the existence of discrimination in labor markets against specific minority groups. This paper uses a correspondence test to determine whether this discrimination is due to prejudice against specific groups, or a general preference for the majority group. Three groups of identical fabricated resumes are sent to help-wanted advertisements in Chicago newspapers: one with Anglo-Saxon names, one with African-American names, and one with fictitious foreign names whose ethnic origin is unidentifiable to most Americans. Resumes with Anglo-Saxon names generate nearly one third more call-backs than identical resumes with non Anglo-Saxon ones, either African-American or Foreign. We take this as evidence that discriminatory behavior is part of a larger pattern of unequal treatment of any member of non-majority groups, ethnic homophily.
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hal-00745109 , version 1 (24-10-2012)

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Nicolas Jacquemet, Constantine Yannelis. Indiscriminate Discrimination: A Correspondence Test for Ethnic Homophily in the Chicago Labor Market. Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (6), pp.824-832. ⟨10.1016/j.labeco.2012.08.004⟩. ⟨hal-00745109⟩
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