Customer Discrimination and Employment Outcomes: Theory and Evidence from the French Labor Market

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Decreuse, Bruno; Laouenan, Morgane; Trannoy, Alain
• 署名单位: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Aix-Marseille Universite; Institut d'Etudes Politiques Paris (Sciences Po); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Aix-Marseille Universite; Universite Catholique Louvain
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/682332
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 107-160
• 关键词: racial-discrimination; immigrant inflows; location choices; civil-rights; black; search; PREJUDICE; Europe; determinants; migration

摘要

The paper investigates the link between the overexposure of African immigrants to unemployment in France and their underrepresentation in jobs in contact with customers. We build a two-sector matching model with ethnic sector-specific preferences, economywide employer discrimination, and customer discrimination in jobs in contact with customers. The outcomes of the model allow us to build a test of ethnic discrimination in general and customer discrimination in particular. We run the test on French individual data in a cross section of local labor markets demployment areas_. Our results show both ethnic and customer discrimination in the French labor market.