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Table 5 Effects of religious closeness according to the origin

From: Hiring discrimination based on national origin and religious closeness: results from a field experiment in the Paris area

Comparison by pair on the same job offers

Difference between the callback rates (in % points)

Student

French

Secular/Catholic

0.33

0.13

Secular/Muslim

11.67***

4.49

Catholic/Muslim

11.33***

4.40

North African

Secular/Catholic

- 1

0.52

Secular/Muslim

5.33***

3.06

Catholic/Muslim

6.33***

3.47

  1. The student test statistics have been computed by the Bootstrap method on 10000 repetitions. *** : Significant at 1%.
  2. Source: calculations by the author.
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