{"id":33513,"date":"2021-04-12T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissmig.wordpress.com\/?p=33513"},"modified":"2021-04-12T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T07:00:00","slug":"why-do-employers-sometimes-prefer-minority-candidates-theoretical-review-and-empirical-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=33513","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Employers Sometimes Prefer Minority Candidates? Theoretical Review and Empirical Test"},"content":{"rendered":"

Author(s) : Eva Zschirnt, Giuliano Bonoli, Flavia Fossati<\/h3>\n

Source : https:\/\/nccr-onthemove.ch\/wp_live14\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/nccrotm-WP28_Zschirnt-Bonoli-Fossati.pdf<\/a><\/h3>\n

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“Correspondence tests on ethnic discrimination in the labor market usually focus on how often native <\/span>majority candidates and ethnic minority candidates are invited for job interviews on an aggregated <\/span>level. Cases in which only minority<\/span> candidates are invited for an interview have mostly been <\/span>disregarded as noise and not analyzed further. In this paper, we argue that employers who prefer <\/span>minority over majority candidates may have good reasons to do so. We propose several theoretical <\/span>mech<\/span>anisms that explain why it would be desirable to hire individuals with a non-<\/span>native <\/span>background and test these expectations quantitatively with correspondence test data that was <\/span>collected in Switzerland between October 2017 and December 2018. We find partia<\/span>l support for our <\/span>expectations: in particular, in urban and thus likely more international firm settings; and among <\/span>owners doing the recruitment themselves in the context of small enterprises, where close <\/span>supervision is possible, we identified employers who are more willing to \u201ctake the risk\u201d and to <\/span>invite only minority applicants for a job interview. We argue that employer behavior is likely to be <\/span>complex and that research should analyze instances of minority preferences more systematically.<\/span>“<\/div>\n
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Keywords<\/strong>: discrimination<\/span>, m<\/span>inorit<\/span>y p<\/span>reference<\/span>, job a<\/span>pplications, correspondence t<\/span>esting, labor m<\/span>arket<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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