Are Joris and Renske more employable than Rashid and Samira? A study on the prevalence and sources of ethnic discrimination in recruitment in the Netherlands using experimental and survey data

This study brings together four research lines from different scientific disciplines to expand existing knowledge on the pervasiveness of ethnic discrimination in recruitment and the circumstances under which discrimination is more likely to occur: (1) field experiments on discrimination in recruitment, conducted by economists and sociologists, that have been crucial to our knowledge of the prevalence of discrimination but have taught us less about the sources of discrimination; (2) laboratory experiments on interethnic behavior, mainly conducted by psychologists, that provide the opportunity... Mehr ...