Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/267963 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
MUNI ECON Working Paper No. 2022-01
Publisher: 
Masaryk University, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Brno
Abstract: 
This paper tests for discriminatory treatment of the Roma minority by public officials in the Czech Republic. Our focus is on public servants at local job centers whose job is to advise unemployed individuals and process applications for unemployment benefit. Our experimental design facilitates testing for the presence of each of two key (but intertwined) drivers of discrimination: ethnic animus and socioeconomic status prejudice. We find substantial evidence for the presence of discrimination based on both of these sources. Since Roma tend to have lower socioeconomic status, the two sources of discrimination compound for them.
Subjects: 
Discrimination
Roma
ethnicity
socioeconomic status
public services
social security
field experiment.
JEL: 
J15
D73
H55
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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