Monday, 29 April 2019

Outsourcing recruitment as a solution to prevent discrimination: A correspondence study

a column by Clémence Berson, Morgane Laouénan and Emmanuel Valat for VOX: CEPR’s Policy Portal

Hiring discrimination against ethnic minorities remains an important issue in most industrialised countries, but few tools have proven their effectiveness in fighting this discrimination.

Based on an original correspondence study in France, this column argues that the organisation of recruitment has a large impact on discrimination

The findings suggest that companies that centralise HR practices across establishments are less likely to discriminate against minority ethnic applicants in the first round of selection.

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