No evidence for ethnic discrimination in the nonprofit sector: an audit study of access to nursing homes
| Autor: | Wouter Van Dooren, Sebastian Jilke |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | International public management journal |
| ISSN: | 1559-3169 1096-7494 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/10967494.2022.2051650 |
| Popis: | Discrimination curtails equal opportunities of minority groups to participate in society. Although various studies reveal discrimination in access to human services, studies of nonprofit organizations are rare. This is surprising because nonprofits are essential providers of public services in many countries. We expect institutional features of the nonprofit sector to curb discrimination in access to public services, including nonprofit's social mission and financial non-distribution constraint. We implemented an audit study within long-term care facilities for older people (i.e., nursing homes) in Flanders (Belgium). We sent a request for admission information signed by either a Moroccan or a Belgian-sounding name to all Flemish nonprofit nursing homes, finding no evidence of discrimination in responses to our request. The absence of a profit motive, combined with a stronger sense of social mission, may account for the absence of ethnic discrimination in the nonprofit sector. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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