Abstract
We conducted a field experiment to analyze if there is hiring discrimination against ethnic minorities. We submitted over 12,000 job applications, to over 4,000 job advertisements, to investigate hiring discrimination against six ethnic groups in Australia. We used Arabic, Australian-Aboriginal, Chinese, English, Greek, and Indian names. We find that the number of positive responses for job applications is influenced by the name and ethnicity of the job applicant, the required leadership skills of the advertised job, the gender of the job applicant, and the ethnicity of the recruiter. Our findings provide novel evidence of hiring discrimination for ethnic minorities to enter the labor market.