• DOI:10.1016/J.ECONLET.2014.09.020
Corpus ID: 154444808

Is Ethnic Discrimination Due to Distaste or Statistics?

@article{Baert2014IsED,
  title={Is Ethnic Discrimination Due to Distaste or Statistics?},
  author={Stijn Baert and Ann-Sophie De Pauw},
  journal={Political Methods: Experiments & Experimental Design eJournal},
  year={2014}
}

Stijn Baert, Ann-Sophie De Pauw

Published 2014

Psychology

Political Methods: Experiments & Experimental Design eJournal

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Employing a vignette experiment, we test the empirical importance of key attitudes underlying the models of taste-based and statistical discrimination in explaining ethnic hiring discrimination. We find that employer concern that co-workers and customers prefer collaborating with natives drives discrimination.