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Are people fuzzy about who they work with?: An experimental test of Becker’s coworker discrimination hypothesis
Linköping University, Sweden.
Linnaeus University, School of Business and Economics, Department of Economics and Statistics (NS). Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Sweden. (Linnaeus University Centre for Discrimination and Integration Studies)ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9433-1959
2021 (English)In: The Social Science Journal, ISSN 0362-3319, E-ISSN 1873-5355, Vol. 58, no 4, p. 477-483Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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SDG 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
Abstract [en]

We used an experiment to investigate whether people’s decisions over employment opportunities are affected by the ethnicity and sex of their potential future coworkers. University students (N = 1,406) were asked to state the lowest hourly wage rate at which they would be willing to accept a job on a campus food truck, where they would work alongside the food truck owner. The ethnicity and sex of the food truck owners were randomized across participants. Results showed no signs of coworker prejudice in terms of the probability of being interested in the job and reservation wage.

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Taylor & Francis, 2021. Vol. 58, no 4, p. 477-483
Keywords [en]
Coworker discrimination, Experiment, Individual behavior, Sex, Ethnicity
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Work Sciences
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Economy, Economics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-86020DOI: 10.1016/j.soscij.2019.06.007ISI: 000758858500005Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85068436181Local ID: 2020OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-86020DiVA, id: diva2:1332241
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The Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius FoundationSwedish Research Council, 2018-03487Available from: 2019-06-27 Created: 2019-06-27 Last updated: 2025-04-30Bibliographically approved

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