Automatic associations and discrimination in hiring: Real world evidence

Labour Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 523-534

  Rooth, Dan Olof ^a,b,c  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b CReAM   (United Kingdom)

^c IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Exit from unemployment; Implicit attitudes stereotypes

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953122768     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2009.04.005     Document Type: Article

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