Hiring discrimination

We are delighted to publish a collection of papers, presented during the 3rd Conference on Labour Discrimination held at the Centre for Discrimination and Integration Studies at the Linnaeus University in 2017. We are grateful to the Editor, Prof. Adrian Ziderman for approving the Special Issue, and to the Editor Assistant Ms. Ma-ayan Gadot for the professional processing.The papers offer new patterns in the study of hiring discrimination and employment bias. Innovative primary field experiments, literature reviews on field experiments, scenario experiments and wage studies are provided from a most interesting sample of countries including Belgium, China, Czech Republic, France, the GCC, Sweden and the UK. The Special Issue examines a plethora of characteristics that might entail favourable or adverse treatments in the labour market. How attractiveness, labour market history, neighbourhood signalling effects, commuting time, firm size, marital status, transgenderism, parental leave length, masculine and feminine personality traits, and ethnicity affect the hiring stage and individuals' employment prospects are explored and evaluated through the lens of economic theory.