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Special Issue: Ethnic discrimination in the labour market: Comparing groups across contexts. Results from a cross-national field experiment

Muslim by default or religious discrimination? Results from a cross-national field experiment on hiring discrimination

Valentina Di Stasioa ERCOMER, Utrecht University, Utrecht, NetherlandsCorrespondence[email protected]
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Bram Lanceeb Department of Sociology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Susanne Veitc WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Berlin, Germany
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Ruta Yemanec WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Berlin, Germany
Pages 1305-1326 | Published online: 24 Jun 2019

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