Discrimination Against Female Migrants Wearing Headscarves

By Doris Weichselbaumer. Social Science Research Network, 2016

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Germany is currently experiencing a high influx of Muslim migrants. From a policy perspective, integration of migrants into the labor market is crucial. Hence, a field experiment was conducted that examined the employment chances of females with backgrounds of migration from Muslim countries, and especially of those wearing headscarves. It focused on Turkish migrants, who have constituted a large demographic group in Germany since the 1970s. In the field experiment presented here, job applications for three fictitious female characters with identical qualifications were sent out in response to job advertisements: one applicant had a German name, one a Turkish name, and one had a Turkish name and was wearing a headscarf in the photograph included in the application material. Germany was the ideal location for the experiment as job seekers typically attach their picture to their resume. High levels of discrimination were found particularly against the migrant wearing a headscarf.

Subfields: Law, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Ethnic discrimination in hiring: comparing groups across contexts. Results from a cross-national field experiment (2019, methodology): “For each of the eight female phenotypes, a version with headscarf was created (see also Ghumman and Ryan 2013; Weichselbaumer 2016).”
• Criminal records and college admissions: A modified experimental audit (2018, background): “Fear of arousing the suspicion of admissions officials or introducing potential bias led us to opt for a mixed within/between design across characteristics rather than for a full (four applications per institution) within design (Gaddis, 2015; Phillips, in press; Weichselbaumer, 2015, 2016).”
• Hiring Discrimination: An Overview of (Almost) All Correspondence Experiments Since 2005 (2017, background): “Labour Economics 19:824–832 Kaas L, Manger C (2012) Ethnic discrimination in Germany’s labour market: a field experiment.”