Residential-based discrimination in the labor market

Mikula, Štěpán and Reggiani, Tommaso ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3134-1049 2022. Residential-based discrimination in the labor market. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 10.1515/bejeap-2021-0331

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Abstract

Through a correspondence study, this paper investigates whether employers discriminate job applicants based on their living conditions. Exploiting the natural setting provided by a Rapid Re-housing Program, we sent 1347 job applications for low-qualified front-desk jobs in Brno, Czech Republic. The resumes exogenously differed in only one main aspect represented by the address of the applicants, signaling both the quality of the neighborhood and the quality of the housing conditions in which they were living. We found that while the higher quality of the district has a strong effect in increasing the hiring chances (+20%) the actual improvement of the living conditions standards, per se, does not generate any significant positive effect.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance
Uncontrolled Keywords:	correspondence study; labor discrimination; housing conditions; Rapid Re-housing
Publisher:	De Gruyter
ISSN:	1935-1682
Funders:	Czech Science Foundation
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	12 April 2022
Date of Acceptance:	8 March 2022
Last Modified:	06 May 2023 17:18
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/149112

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