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Title
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Immigrant volunteering : a way out of labour market discrimination?
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Author
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Abstract
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| Many governments encourage migrants to participate in volunteer activities as a stepping stone to labour market integration. In the present study, we investigate whether this prosocial engagement lowers the hiring discrimination against them. To this end, we use unique data from a field experiment in which fictitious job applications are sent in response to real vacancies in Belgium. Ethnic origin and volunteer activities are randomly assigned to these applications. While non-volunteering native candidates receive more than twice as many job interview invitations as non-volunteering migrants, no unequal treatment is found between natives and migrants when they reveal volunteer activities. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Economics letters. - Amsterdam
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Publication
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Amsterdam
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2016
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ISSN
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0165-1765
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DOI
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10.1016/J.ECONLET.2016.07.035
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Volume/pages
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146
(2016)
, p. 95-98
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ISI
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000383823900023
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Full text (Publisher's DOI)
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Full text (open access)
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