@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp8150, author={Combes, Pierre-Philippe and Decreuse, Bruno and Laouénan, Morgane and Trannoy, Alain}, title={Customer Discrimination and Employment Outcomes: Theory and Evidence from the French Labor Market}, year={2014}, month={Apr}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={8150}, url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8150}, abstract={The paper investigates the link between the over-exposure of African immigrants to unemployment in France and their under-representation in jobs in contact with customers. We build a two-sector matching model with ethnic sector-specific preferences, economy-wide employer discrimination, and customer discrimination in jobs in contact with customers. The outcomes of the model allow us to build a test of ethnic discrimination in general and customer discrimination in particular. We run the test on French individual data in a cross-section of local labor markets (Employment Areas). Our results show that there is both ethnic and customer discrimination in the French labor market.}, keywords={local labor markets;ethnic unemployment;jobs in contact;matching frictions;discrimination}, }