Samenvatting
Persistent hiring discrimination as demonstrated by correspondence experiments incites immigrant job candidates and their descendants to modify their résumé to hide their immigrant status, that is, résumé whitening. To date, we have little to no empirical evidence on how common this is in practice. We test the extent of résumé whitening with a representative survey of immigrants in Switzerland (N = 7659). Around 9% of the immigrants used some résumé whitening. Immigrants appear to use résumé whitening strategically when experiencing or anticipating discrimination. Future correspondence experiments should take this into account to maximize external validity.
| Originele taal-2 | English |
|---|---|
| Pagina's (van-tot) | 858-869 |
| Aantal pagina's | 12 |
| Tijdschrift | Sociological Research Online |
| Volume | 28 |
| Nummer van het tijdschrift | 3 |
| Vroegere onlinedatum | 9 jun 2022 |
| DOI's | |
| Status | Published - sep 2023 |
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Funding Information:The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was supported by the National Center of Competence in Research nccr – on the move, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (Grant Number 51NF40-182897).
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