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