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The effect of place of residence on access to employment : a field experiment on qualified young job applicants in Ile-de-France

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The aim of this study is to evaluate hiring discrimination against young people in the Ile-de-France region on three different grounds: the reputation of the area they live in, their gender and their ethnic origin (French or Moroccan). The study is based on experimental testing data using a protocol that allows to examine the cross effects of these three dimensions, which we call "conditional discrimination". We study discrimination in a skilled occupation with a high demand - computer developers with MSclevel qualifications - and where discrimination is a priori very limited. For this occupation, we have constructed 12 fictional profiles of job applicants that are identical in everything except the characteristic we want to test. We examine area-based discrimination by giving these fictional candidates an address in one of three towns in the Val-d'Oise department: Enghien-les-Bains (good reputation), Sarcelles (poor reputation) and Villiers-le-Bel (poor reputation exacerbated by highly-publicised riots in 2007). Between mid-December 2008 and the end of January 2009, we sent 3684 applications in response to 307 job offers. The study consists in a statistical and econometric analysis of the replies to these applications.
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halshs-00812113 , version 1 (11-04-2013)

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Yannick L'Horty, Emmanuel Duguet, Loic Du Parquet, Pascale Petit, Florent Sari. The effect of place of residence on access to employment : a field experiment on qualified young job applicants in Ile-de-France. 2011. ⟨halshs-00812113⟩
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