Learning and Work hybride seminars, najaar 2025
De hybride seminarreeks van de Universiteit Maastricht - SBE biedt een podium aan onderzoekers uit verschillende disciplines, met aandacht voor zowel academische als beleidsmatige vraagstukken.
De hybride seminarreeks vindt elke dinsdag plaats van 12.00 tot 13.00 uur, ter plaatse en ook via Microsoft Teams.
Organisatoren L&W seminars
Raymond Montizaan: r.montizaan@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Katarina Wessling: k.wessling@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Steffen Künn: s.kuenn@maastrichtuniversity.nl
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Aankomend seminar
Wanneer: dinsdag 25 november
Tijd: 12.00 - 13.00
Waar: TS53 - C-1.05Spreker: Paula Protsch - BIBB / Univ. Cologne
Titel: Mitigating Ethnic Discrimination in Apprenticeship Hiring? The role of employer and teacher references in Norway
Abstract: Many (field) experiments documented the prevalence of ethnic discrimination in employers’ hiring decisions across many European labor markets. Much less attention has been given to factors that could potentially mitigate such discriminatory preferences by countering stereotypes about hirability, trainability, or social fit. We present first evidence of ethnic discrimination in the Norwegian apprenticeship system and test whether and how employers’ ethnic bias against second-generation immigrant youth might be mitigated by additional applicant information provided by good references from internships and from vocational teachers. We invited all employers in the broader Oslo region to participate in a factorial survey experiment in early 2025. With a response rate of 17%, we reached a sample of 620 employers who, in total, evaluated 3,720 vignettes, describing fictitious applicants. The online survey was supplemented with variables from registry data on the employers and their organizations. Based on linear regressions with cluster-robust standard errors, we find that employers prefer to hire applicants with a Norwegian name rather than those with a Pakistani or Polish name, and that applicants with positive references from employers and teachers get higher ratings too. Good references, however, do not mitigate ethnic bias in employer ratings.
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