an article by Attakrit Leckcivilize and Alexander Straub (Institute of Labour Economics, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany) published in IZA Journal of Labor Economics Volume 7 Article 11 (December 2018)
Abstract
This paper investigates effects of appearance and religious practice of job applicants on the hiring decision. We asked participants in our laboratory experiment to select fictitious candidates for an interview from a pool of CVs with comparable characteristics but different photos. Some photos were of the same Turkish women with and without a headscarf.
We demonstrate the effects of appearance, ethnicity, and veiling simultaneously and propose underlying mechanisms. We find robust effects of appearance but heterogeneous effects of headscarf on callback rates based on types of occupations and recruiters’ characteristics.
However, positive characteristics mitigate discrimination against headscarf and even reverse it.
JEL Classification: J15 J71 C91
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