| Abstract: |
Research on employers’ hiring discrimination is limited by the unlawfulness of
such activity. Consequently, researchers have focused on the intention to
hire. Instead, we rely on a virtual labour market, the Fantasy Football
Premier League, where employers can freely exercise their taste for racial
discrimination in terms of hiring and firing. The setting allows us to
eliminate co-worker, consumer-based and statistical discrimination as
potential sources of discrimination, thus isolating the effects of taste-based
discrimination. We find no evidence of racial discrimination, either in
initial hiring or through the season, in a context where employers are fully
aware of current and prospective workers’ productivity. |