Immigrant Volunteering: A Way Out of Labour Market Discrimination?
@article{Baert2016ImmigrantVA, title={Immigrant Volunteering: A Way Out of Labour Market Discrimination?}, author={Stijn Baert and S. Vuji{\'c}}, journal={Randomized Social Experiments eJournal}, year={2016} }
Many governments encourage migrants to participate in volunteer activities as a stepping stone to labour market integration. In the present study, we investigate whether this prosocial engagement lowers the hiring discrimination against them. To this end, we use unique data from a field experiment in which fictitious job applications are sent in response to real vacancies in Belgium. Ethnic origin and volunteer activities are randomly assigned to these applications. While non-volunteering… CONTINUE READING
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