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Does poor neighbourhood reputation create a neighbourhood effect on employment? The results of a field experiment in the UK
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Tunstall, R. , Green, Anne E., Lupton, R. , Watmough, S. and Bates, K. (2014) Does poor neighbourhood reputation create a neighbourhood effect on employment? The results of a field experiment in the UK. Urban Studies, Volume 51 (Number 4). pp. 763-780. doi:10.1177/0042098013492230 ISSN 0042-0980.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098013492230
Abstract
There are substantial variations in labour market outcomes between neighbourhoods. One potential partial explanation is that residents of some neighbourhoods face discrimination from employers. Although studies of deprived areas have recorded resident perceptions of discrimination by employers and negative employer perceptions of certain areas, until now there has been no direct evidence on whether employers treat job applicants differently by area of residence. This paper reports a unique experiment to test for a neighbourhood reputation effect involving 2001 applications to 667 real jobs by fictional candidates nominally resident in neighbourhoods with poor and bland reputations. The experiment found no statistically significant difference in employer treatment of applicants from these areas, indicating that people living in neighbourhoods with poor reputations did not face ‘postcode discrimination’ in the labour market, at the initial selection stage.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Institute for Employment Research | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Urban Studies | ||||||
| Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0042-0980 | ||||||
| Official Date: | March 2014 | ||||||
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| Volume: | Volume 51 | ||||||
| Number: | Number 4 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 763-780 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/0042098013492230 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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