Measuring discrimination facing ethnic minority job applicants: An Irish experiment

Work, Employment and Society

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 693-708

  McGinnity, Frances ^a   Lunn, Peter D ^a  

^a ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ireland)

Author keywords

discrimination; ethnicity; field experiment; Ireland; migrants; recruitment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855184483     PISSN: 09500170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0950017011419722     Document Type: Article

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