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09 November, 2021

Does employer discrimination contribute to the subordinate labor market inclusion of individuals of a foreign background?

Social Science Research, vol. 98 Abstract Advanced labor markets are typically stratified by origin with a majority ethnic group occupying more desirable (high-skilled) positions and subordinated ethnic choices reinforce these patterns. This would be the case if employers were more reluctant to hire subordinate minority job applicants for high-skilled positions than for low-skilled occupations. We use experimental correspondence audit data derived from 6407 job applications sent to job openings in the Swedish labor market, where the ‘foreignness’ of the job applicants has been randomly assigned to otherwise equally merited job applications. We find that negative discrimination of job applicants with ‘foreign’ names is very similar in the high-skilled and low-skilled segments of the labor market. There is no significant relative ethnic difference in chances of callbacks by skill level. Because baseline callback rates are higher in high-skilled occupations, discrimination however translates into a significantly larger percentage unit callback difference between ‘natives’ and ‘foreigners’ in these occupations, in particular between male job applicants. That is, the 

Type of publication: Journal articles | Bursell, Moa , & Michael Gähler
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17 October, 2023

Does your name impact your chances to get a job? Short answer: Yes

What significance does your name have for your chances of getting a job? We ask Moa Bursell, a sociologist and research leader at the Institute for Futures Studies, who has researched discrimination i

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29 April, 2021

Women in the Nordic Resistance Movement and their online media practices: between internalised misogyny and “embedded feminism”

Feminist Media Studies Abstract This paper is based on a case study of the online media practices of the neo-Nazi organisation, the Nordic Resistance Movement,conducted in the context of an ongoing proje

Type of publication: Journal articles | Askanius, Tina
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