Discrimination: Swedish study shows job applicants with foreign names receive far fewer responses

Hiring discrimination patterns in Sweden echo those found in other European countries. Photo from The Conversation/Deco/Alamy Stock Photo

The article is published on May 31 and is written by Anni Erlandsson, Post-doctoral Researcher in Sociology at the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University.

She writes:

“The difference in the callback rates between applicants with Swedish and foreign-sounding names is almost 15 percentage points. In other words, if someone with a Swedish-sounding name sent out 10 applications, someone with a foreign-sounding name would have to send out 15 to expect the same number of callbacks.

What’s more, among applicants with foreign names, we found that men are contacted less often by employers than women.”

Read the article published in The Conversation:
https://theconversation.com/discrimination-swedish-study-shows-job-applicants-with-foreign-names-receive-far-fewer-responses-182389

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