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Table 1 Description of Variables

From: Do ethnicity and sex of employers affect applicants’ job interest? An experimental exploration

Variables

Explanation

Outcome variables

 Would apply

1 if a participant stated that they would definitely or probably apply to a certain job opening, 0 otherwise

 Strict would apply

1 if a participant stated that they would definitely apply to a certain job opening, 0 otherwise

 Strict would not apply

1 if a participant stated that they would definitely not apply to a certain job opening, 0 otherwise

Explanatory variables

 Swedish male employer

1 if the fictitious employer in a job ad had a Swedish-sounding male name, 0 otherwise (Reference category)

 Arab male employer

1 if the fictitious employer in a job ad had an Arabic-sounding male name, 0 otherwise

 Swedish female employer

1 if the fictitious employer in a job ad had a Swedish-sounding female name, 0 otherwise

 Arab female employer

1 if the fictitious employer in a job ad had an Arabic-sounding female name, 0 otherwise

Control variables

 Female

1 if the participant was female, 0 otherwise

 Age

[18, 67], a participant’s reported age

 Non-Swedish background

1 if the participant had a non-Swedish background, i.e., at least one parent born abroad, 0 otherwise

 Urban

1 if the participant originally came from a city with more than 200,000 inhabitants, 0 otherwise

 Work experience

1 if the participant has had over one year of work experience of any kind, 0 otherwise

 Restaurant experience

1 if the participant has had previous experience of any kind from working in the restaurant industry, 0 otherwise

 Field of study fixed effects

1 if the participant studied a particular area of subject (one dummy for each field of study), 0 otherwise

 Ad fixed effects

1 if the participant saw a specific ad (one dummy for each of the ten ads), 0 otherwise

 Sequence fixed effects

1 if it was the participant’s first, second, …, response. (one dummy for each of the ten possible timings), 0 otherwise

  1. Field of study fixed effects: Participants were asked to choose among 18 possible fields of academic study (a categorization adopted from the Swedish Council for Higher Education): computer science; animal care; economics; humanities; health and medical care; journalism, information and communication; law; art, design and media; agriculture, horticulture, forestry and fishery; mathematics; material, construction and manufacturing; science; pedagogy, education, and didactics; religion and theology; social and behavioral science; social work and care; language; and technology and technical industry