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Abstract
Correspondence tests are the golden standard to examine discriminatory behavior in the real world. This chapter starts with distinguishing correspondence tests from related methods, such as situation tests, mystery calls, and mystery visits on the basis of three criteria. Afterwards, it briefly discusses the history of correspondence tests and its main applications during the past decades on the labor, housing, and consumer markets. Next, it considers a few methodological issues that should be taken into account while conducting correspondence tests: matched versus randomly assigned testing; signaling the discrimination ground; getting ethical approval for testing; and the representativeness of the tested subjects. Finally, this chapter ends with recommendations. Future research should combine correspondence tests with other methods of data collection, expand the scope of contexts and groups, trade-off the advantages of situation tests against the advantages of correspondence tests, and apply correspondence tests for policy applications and evaluations.
Translated title of the contribution | Correspondentietesten |
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Original language | English |
Title of host publication | Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics |
Editors | Klaus Zimmerman |
Publisher | Springer, Cham |
Pages | 1-19 |
Number of pages | 19 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-319-57365-6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 31 Jan 2022 |