Hiring Discrimination Against Arab Minorities: Interactions Between Prejudice and Job Characteristics

By Eva Derous, Hannah‐Hanh D. Nguyen, A. Ryan. 2009

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Not welcome here: Discrimination towards women who wear the Muslim headscarf (2013, background): “In fact, Derous et al. (2009) found that recruiters had more negative attitudes towards highly identified Arab applicants than less ethnically identified Arab applicants in a simulated hiring context.”
Job Seeking: The Process and Experience of Looking for a Job (2020, background): “Other European-based samples indicate lower employer preference for individuals with darker versus lighter skin (Derous et al. 2017) and individuals with Arab names and affiliations (Derous et al. 2009).”
Discrimination Against Female Migrants Wearing Headscarves (2016, background): “For example, Derous et al. (2009) found that Dutch and American students evaluated résumés with Arab names more negatively if these signaled a high Arab identification.”
Oxytocin promotes human ethnocentrism (2011, background): “In 2005, the Pew Global Project found that 51% of Dutch citizens had unfavorable opinions aboutMuslims (30), job applicants weremore often rejected immediately when their resume listed themwith anArab rather than Dutch name (31), andMoroccan adolescentmales were the target of negative stereotyping a”
The individual experience of unemployment. (2012, background): “In the Netherlands and the United States, resumes with common Arabic names were rated lower on job suitability than resumes with common white names, although this effect depended on job characteristics and the rater's implicit prejudice (Derous et al. 2009).”