• Media type: Report; E-Book
  • Title: Immigrant Volunteering: A Way Out of Labour Market Discrimination?
  • Contributor: Baert, Stijn [Author]; Vujić, Sunčica [Author]
  • Published: Bonn: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), 2016
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: immigrants ; integration ; D64 ; hiring ; discrimination ; J71 ; volunteering ; J15
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  • Description: Many governments encourage migrants to participate in volunteer activities as a stepping stone to labour market integration. In the present study, we investigate whether this prosocial engagement lowers the hiring discrimination against them. To this end, we use unique data from a field experiment in which fictitious job applications are sent in response to real vacancies in Belgium. Ethnic origin and volunteer activities are randomly assigned to these applications. While non-volunteering native candidates receive more than twice as many job interview invitations as non‐volunteering migrants, no unequal treatment is found between natives and migrants when they reveal volunteer activities.
  • Access State: Open Access