Discrimination in the rental housing market: A field experiment on the Internet

被引：192

作者：

Ahmed, Ali M. ^{[1
,2
]}

Hammarstedt, Mats ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Gothenburg, Dept Econ, SE-40530 Gothenburg, Sweden

[2] Vaxjo Univ, Ctr Labour Market Policy Res, SE-35195 Vaxjo, Sweden

来源：

JOURNAL OF URBAN ECONOMICS | 2008年 / 64卷 / 02期

关键词：

discrimination; field experiments; housing market; internet;

D O I：

10.1016/j.jue.2008.02.004

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

This paper presents a field experiment on discrimination in the housing market, using the Internet as a research platform. The procedure involved our creating three fictitious persons with distinctive sounding ethnic and gender names. These individuals applied for vacant rental apartments in Sweden that were advertised by landlords on the Internet. Our findings show that the Arabic/Muslim male received far fewer call backs, enquiries, and showings than the Swedish male. Our observations, also indicate that the Swedish female met with less difficulty in terms of finding an apartment than the Swedish male. Thus, based on our findings, we conclude that ethnic, as well as gender discrimination exists in the Swedish rental housing market. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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页码：362 / 372

页数：11