Experience, stereotypes and discrimination. Employers’ reflections on their hiring behavior
| Autor: | Jon Rogstad, Lars Erik Johannessen, Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund, Erik Børve Rasmussen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Experiences
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development Immigration 050109 social psychology 0506 political science Interviews Employments Discrimination 050602 political science & public administration 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Stereotypes Psychology Social psychology Workers Demography media_common |
| Zdroj: | European Societies |
| ISSN: | 1469-8307 1461-6696 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14616696.2020.1775273 |
| Popis: | This article explores the relationship between labor market discrimination, stereotypes and employers’ experiences with immigrant workers. Based on interviews with 58 employers, recruited as part of three randomized field experiments on ethnic discrimination in the Norwegian labor market, we find that experience matters in three distinct ways: first, employers with negative experiences with immigrant workers were unwilling to give job applicants from the same group an opportunity; second, employers with positive experiences with immigrant workers were more willing to hire workers from the same group, and third, employers without experiences with immigrant workers seemed to be risk averse and resort to general stereotypes of immigrants. Our findings contrast with a US study, where some employers, despite their positive experiences with black workers, still were unwilling to give job applicants from the same group an opportunity. Theoretically, we suggest that the role of employers’ experiences for labor market discrimination depends on how deeply embedded stereotypes of minorities are in the employers’ society. This work was supported by the Norwegian Research Council [Grant Number 236793]. |
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