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

Journal for Labour Market Research

Table 2 Willingness to Apply as a Function of Employers’ Ethnicity and Sex

	Model i	Model i^a	Model ii	Model ii^a	Model iii	Model iii^a
Swedish male	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference
Arab male	− 0.004	0.003	− 0.003	0.004	− 0.002	0.005
Arab male	(0.014)	(0.013)	(0.014)	(0.013)	(0.013)	(0.012)
Swedish female	− 0.003	− 0.004	− 0.004	− 0.004	0.003	0.003
Swedish female	(0.014)	(0.013)	(0.014)	(0.013)	(0.013)	(0.012)
Arab female	0.011	0.012	0.013	0.013	0.018	0.018
Arab female	(0.014)	(0.013)	(0.014)	(0.013)	(0.013)	(0.012)
Age			0.001	0.001
Age			(0.001)	(0.001)
Female			0.051***	0.050***
Female			(0.019)	(0.019)
Non-Swedish			− 0.004	− 0.004
Non-Swedish			(0.019)	(0.019)
Urban			0.014	0.014
Urban			(0.019)	(0.019)
Restaurant experience			− 0.055***	− 0.055***
Restaurant experience			(0.016)	(0.016)
Work experience			− 0.030	− 0.030
Work experience			(0.019)	(0.019)
Constant	0.715***	0.827***	0.673***	0.786***	0.738***	0.863***
Constant	(0.012)	(0.015)	(0.051)	(0.052)	(0.015)	(0.018)
Subject controls			✓	✓
Ad FE		✓		✓		✓
Participant FE					✓	✓
Sequence FE						✓
Observations	8,890	8,890	8,890	8,890	8,890	8,890

Regressions are linear probability models. Descriptions of all variables are provided in Table 1. Reported standard errors (in parentheses) are corrected for clustering of the observations at the participant level. “FE” is short for fixed effects
***p < 0.01, **p < 0.05, *p < 0.10
^aIndicates that ad FE have been added to the preceding model