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Title: When Correspondence Studies Fail to Detect Hiring Discrimination

Author(s): Pierre Cahuc, Stéphane Carcillo, Andreea Minea and Marie-Anne Valfort

Publication Date: September 2019

Keyword(s): correspondence studies, discrimination and Public sector

Programme Area(s): Labour Economics

Abstract: 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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Cahuc, P, Carcillo, S, Minea, A and Valfort, M. 2019. 'When Correspondence Studies Fail to Detect Hiring Discrimination'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=14028