TY - RPRT AU - Baert, Stijn AU - Pauw, Ann-Sophie De TI - Is Ethnic Discrimination Due to Distaste or Statistics? PY - 2014/Jul/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 8319 UR - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp8319 AB - Employing a lab experiment, we directly test the empirical importance of key attitudes underlying the models of taste-based and statistical discrimination in explaining ethnic hiring discrimination. We find evidence that employer concern that co-workers and customers will prefer collaborating with native individuals drives unequal treatment. KW - economics of ethnic minorities KW - hiring discrimination KW - taste discrimination KW - statistical discrimination ER -