Same religion, different treatment : the role of origin country characteristics in employers' decisions to hire Muslims

DI STASIO, Valentina; DE VRIES, Anne Margaretha

doi:10.1080/1369183X.2023.2286212

Same religion, different treatment : the role of origin country characteristics in employers' decisions to hire Muslims

dc.contributor.author	DI STASIO, Valentina
dc.contributor.author	DE VRIES, Anne Margaretha
dc.date.accessioned	2024-09-27T07:27:02Z
dc.date.available	2024-09-27T07:27:02Z
dc.date.issued	2024
dc.description	Published online: 14 December 2023	en
dc.description.abstract	Using data from a cross-nationally harmonised correspondence test, we examined how employers in five European labour markets (Britain, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Spain) respond to applications received from Muslim job seekers with ancestry from 22 different countries of origin. Drawing on the interdisciplinary literature on anti-Muslim prejudice, we expected that callbacks would depend on characteristics of applicants’ origin countries that could signal cultural value incompatibility and political and military oppression, thus triggering perceptions of symbolic and security threats, respectively. The results point to lower callback rates for Muslims, the higher the level of authoritarianism and gender inequality in their origin country. Results for authoritarianism are especially robust across different operationalizations of threat and model specifications. We also find that the association between authoritarianism and callbacks was only statistically significant for men, indicating that Muslim men are especially at risk of exclusion from employment opportunities.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	This work was supported by European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme: [Grant Number No 649255 (GEMM Project)].	en
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	en
dc.identifier.citation	Journal of ethnic and migration studies, 2024, Vol. 50, No. 10, pp. 2444-2467	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1080/1369183X.2023.2286212
dc.identifier.endpage	2467	en
dc.identifier.issn	1369-183X
dc.identifier.issn	1469-9451
dc.identifier.issue	10	en
dc.identifier.startpage	2444	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1814/77289
dc.identifier.volume	50	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.orcid.upload	true	*
dc.publisher	Routledge	en
dc.relation	Growth, Equal Opportunities, Migration and Markets
dc.relation.ispartof	Journal of ethnic and migration studies	en
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	en
dc.rights.license	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.title	Same religion, different treatment : the role of origin country characteristics in employers' decisions to hire Muslims	en
dc.type	Article	en
dspace.entity.type	Publication
eui.subscribe.skip	true
person.identifier.orcid	0000-0002-9559-1776
person.identifier.other	35177
relation.isAuthorOfPublication	9d59d183-3d0b-4872-ac82-7e6af3e294cd
relation.isAuthorOfPublication.latestForDiscovery	9d59d183-3d0b-4872-ac82-7e6af3e294cd
relation.isProjectOfPublication	5e480374-8d21-4056-ae19-196b7edc0dc1
relation.isProjectOfPublication.latestForDiscovery	5e480374-8d21-4056-ae19-196b7edc0dc1