{"id":38639,"date":"2026-03-23T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=38639"},"modified":"2026-03-15T16:34:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T15:34:46","slug":"identity-versus-effort-based-bureaucratic-discrimination-among-mobile-european-union-citizens-evidence-from-conjoint-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=38639","title":{"rendered":"Identity- versus effort-based bureaucratic discrimination among mobile European Union citizens: Evidence from conjoint experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8cf370e7 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Author(s):Jana G\u00f3mez D\u00edaz, Eva Thomann, Xavier Fern\u00e1ndez-i-Mar\u00edn, Anita Manatschal <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/14651165261423087\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/14651165261423087<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Discrimination by welfare bureaucrats in host countries poses significant administrative burdens for mobile European Union citizens\u2019 social rights in practice. However, the relative importance of applicants\u2019 identity and perceived effort therein is understudied. Combining discrimination and behavioral theory, we investigate how nationality and perceived effort affect bureaucratic discrimination. A choice-based conjoint survey experiment presents 2403 bureaucrats in Switzerland, Denmark, Ireland, and Spain with fictional information requests from French and Bulgarian citizens. The results of the experiment show that bureaucrats\u2014particularly administrators with antimigration and right-wing attitudes\u2014favor French citizens over Bulgarians. Preferential treatment was strongest for applicants whose language fluency and job-seeking activities indicate integration efforts. Bureaucratic discrimination is much more about what EU citizens do than who they are.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author(s):Jana G\u00f3mez D\u00edaz, Eva Thomann, Xavier Fern\u00e1ndez-i-Mar\u00edn, Anita Manatschal Source:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[854,7,37,57,151,638,9,82,27,500,236,91,221,621,181,315],"class_list":["post-38639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-854","tag-article","tag-attitudes-towards-migrants","tag-comparative-analysis","tag-cultural-identity","tag-denmark","tag-english-language","tag-ethnic-discrimination","tag-european-union","tag-ireland","tag-language-barriers","tag-social-integration","tag-spain","tag-street-level-bureaucracy","tag-survey","tag-welfare-state"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38640,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38639\/revisions\/38640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}