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Do employers avoid hiring workers from poor neighborhoods?: Experimental evidence from the real labor market
Linnaeus University, School of Business and Economics, Department of Economics and Statistics. (Linnaeus University Centre for Labour Market and Discrimination Studies)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5620-4745
Uppsala University, Sweden.
2023 (English)In: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, ISSN 0347-0520, E-ISSN 1467-9442, Vol. 125, no 2, p. 376-402Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

We investigate if employers avoid hiring workers living in neighborhoods with low socioeconomic status and/or with long commuting times. In a large-scale field experiment in the Swedish labor market, we sent more than 4,000 fictitious resumes, with randomly assigned information about the applicants’ residential locations, to firms with advertised vacancies. Our findings show that commuting time has a negative effect on the likelihood of being contacted by an employer, while the socioeconomic status of a neighborhood does not appear to be important. These results offer guidance for policymakers responsible for reversing segregation patterns.

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John Wiley & Sons, 2023. Vol. 125, no 2, p. 376-402
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Economics
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Economy, Economics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-110814DOI: 10.1111/sjoe.12509ISI: 000969163700001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85146461424OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-110814DiVA, id: diva2:1644851
Available from: 2022-03-15 Created: 2022-03-15 Last updated: 2023-05-25Bibliographically approved

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