Job Market Discrimination against Slum Dwellers in Urban Argentina

We conducted a paired correspondence experiment in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to measure the extent of labor market discrimination in hiring against slum dwellers. We sent 4,290 online pairs of fictitious job applications of otherwise observationally equivalent individuals who differed in a single attribute: place of residence, either a slum or not. We found that job applicants living in slums received nearly 28 percent fewer callbacks than other applicants. We observe discrimination across jobs that require a university degree, with discrimination being concentrated in administrative and software-related occupations. We observed discrimination against both men and women living in slums. Discrimination also varied by occupation. Discrimination against slum dwellers is an invisible barrier that affects their employment probability, ultimately reducing their likelihood of graduating from poverty.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Inter-American Development Bank
Other Authors:	Wladimir Zanoni
Language:	English
Published:	Inter-American Development Bank
Subjects:	Women, Slum Upgrading, Rating, Labor Force, Coronavirus, Workforce and Employment, Educational Institution, Labor, Skills, Labor Market, Income Distribution, Housing, O10 - Economic Development: General, O18 - Urban Rural Regional and Transportation Analysis • Housing • Infrastructure, O54 - Latin America • Caribbean, J71 - Discrimination, J78 - Public Policy, J15 - Economics of Minorities Races Indigenous Peoples and Immigrants • Non-labor Discrimination, Correspondence study, discrimination,
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0004179 https://publications.iadb.org/en/job-market-discrimination-against-slum-dwellers-urban-argentina
Tags:	Add Tag No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!