The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on ethnic discrimination on the housing market
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- Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe (UGent) and Abel Ghekiere
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- This explorative study examines the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on ethnic discrimination. By means of 482 pairwise matched correspondence tests in pre-Covid times and 440 tests in Covid times, we examine discrimination against candidates of Maghrebian and Congolese origin on the housing market of a metropolitan city in Belgium. While the absolute invitation rates decreased for both Maghrebian and Belgian candidates at almost the same pace in Covid times, the relative net rate of discrimination of Maghrebian candidates increased significantly from 20% to 36%. With respect to candidates of Congolese origin, the absolute invitation rate only decreased sharply for Belgian candidates but not for Congolese candidates, with declining relative net rates of discrimination from 17% to 6% as a consequence. This suggests that the effect of Covid-19 on discrimination is different for different ethnic groups.
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- Geography, Planning and Development, Demography, Ethnic discrimination, Covid-19, housing market, field experiments, real estate, METAANALYSIS, IMMIGRANTS
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8740691
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- Verhaeghe, Pieter-Paul, and Abel Ghekiere. “The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Ethnic Discrimination on the Housing Market.” EUROPEAN SOCIETIES, vol. 23, no. Suppl. 1, 2021, pp. S384–99, doi:10.1080/14616696.2020.1827447.
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- Verhaeghe, P.-P., & Ghekiere, A. (2021). The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on ethnic discrimination on the housing market. EUROPEAN SOCIETIES, 23(Suppl. 1), S384–S399. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2020.1827447
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- Verhaeghe, Pieter-Paul, and Abel Ghekiere. 2021. “The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Ethnic Discrimination on the Housing Market.” EUROPEAN SOCIETIES 23 (Suppl. 1): S384–99. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2020.1827447.
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- Verhaeghe, Pieter-Paul, and Abel Ghekiere. 2021. “The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Ethnic Discrimination on the Housing Market.” EUROPEAN SOCIETIES 23 (Suppl. 1): S384–S399. doi:10.1080/14616696.2020.1827447.
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- 1.Verhaeghe P-P, Ghekiere A. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on ethnic discrimination on the housing market. EUROPEAN SOCIETIES. 2021;23(Suppl. 1):S384–99.
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- [1]P.-P. Verhaeghe and A. Ghekiere, “The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on ethnic discrimination on the housing market,” EUROPEAN SOCIETIES, vol. 23, no. Suppl. 1, pp. S384–S399, 2021.
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