Article(electronic)April 7, 2022

Residential-Based Discrimination in the Labor Market

In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy, Volume 22, Issue 2, p. 373-388

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Abstract

Abstract
Through a correspondence study, this paper investigates whether employers discriminate job applicants based on their living conditions. Exploiting the natural setting provided by a Rapid Re-housing Program, we sent 1347 job applications for low-qualified front-desk jobs in Brno, Czech Republic. The resumes exogenously differed in only one main aspect represented by the address of the applicants, signaling both the quality of the neighborhood and the quality of the housing conditions in which they were living. We found that while the higher quality of the district has a strong effect in increasing the hiring chances (+20%) the actual improvement of the living conditions standards, per se, does not generate any significant positive effect.

Languages

English

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

ISSN: 1935-1682

DOI

10.1515/bejeap-2021-0331

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