{"id":544,"date":"2012-10-29T15:13:01","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T15:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rulesofreason.wordpress.com\/?p=544"},"modified":"2012-10-29T15:13:01","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T15:13:01","slug":"ethnic-job-discrimination-in-the-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-design.dimiter.eu\/?p=544","title":{"rendered":"Ethnic job discrimination in the Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have more than one reason to care about job discrimination based on ethnicity in the Netherlands. A new study shows that there is plenty to worry about. In short, the researchers sent identical job applications varying only the name – Dutch vs. ethnic (Antillean, Surinamese, Turkish, Moroccan). The ‘Dutch’ applicants had a higher chance<\/strong> of being invited for a job interview. The effect is rather small in size (5-8 percentage points), but is robust and\u00a0statistically\u00a0significant.\u00a0Furthermore, discrimination is greater for ethnic males<\/strong> (20 percentage points), and for the lower-educated<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This study investigates ethnic discrimination in the Dutch labor market, using\u00a0field experiments. Two thousand eighty applications were sent to 1340 job\u00a0vacancies; one applicant had a Dutch-sounding name, the other a name that\u00a0signaled immigrant descent. Our aims were (a) to test for the persistence\u00a0of discrimination in the Dutch labor market; (b) to study the interactions of\u00a0ethnic background with job characteristics; (c) to study the complexity of\u00a0discrimination against a background of multiple group membership. Results\u00a0indicate that discrimination continues to be a problem in selection procedures. Interactions with job characteristics and multiple group membership\u00a0are discussed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nAndriessen, Iris, Eline Nievers, Jaco Dagevos, and Laila Faulk. “Ethnic Discrimination in the Dutch Labor Market: Its Relationship with Job Characteristics and Multiple Group Membership.” Work and Occupations 39, no. 3 (2012): 237-69.<\/p>\n

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I have more than one reason to care about job discrimination based on ethnicity in the Netherlands. A new study shows that there is plenty to worry about. In short, the researchers sent identical job applications varying only the name – Dutch vs. ethnic (Antillean, Surinamese, Turkish, Moroccan). The ‘Dutch’ applicants had a higher chance of being invited for a job interview. The effect is rather small in size (5-8 percentage points), but is robust and\u00a0statistically\u00a0significant.\u00a0Furthermore, discrimination is greater for ethnic males (20 percentage points), and for the lower-educated. This study investigates ethnic discrimination in the Dutch labor market, using\u00a0field experiments. Two thousand eighty applications were sent to 1340 job\u00a0vacancies; one applicant had a Dutch-sounding name, the other a name that\u00a0signaled immigrant descent. Our aims were (a) to test for the persistence\u00a0of discrimination in the Dutch labor market; (b) to study the interactions of\u00a0ethnic background with job characteristics; (c) to study the complexity of\u00a0discrimination against a background of multiple group membership. Results\u00a0indicate that discrimination continues to be a problem in selection procedures. Interactions with job characteristics and multiple group membership\u00a0are discussed. [full text (gated) here] Andriessen, Iris, Eline Nievers, Jaco Dagevos, and Laila Faulk. “Ethnic Discrimination in the Dutch Labor Market: Its Relationship with Job Characteristics and Multiple Group Membership.” Work and Occupations 39, no. 3 (2012): 237-69.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[17,22],"tags":[188,224,233,265,358],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7g3hj-8M","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":602,"url":"http:\/\/re-design.dimiter.eu\/?p=602","url_meta":{"origin":544,"position":0},"title":"Why EU Commissioners Are Poor Politicians","date":"November 23, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Note: a highly-opinionated \u00a0piece re-posted from the EU blog I contribute to EU Commissioners might be seasoned bureaucrats but make for lousy politicians. 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