Contents 讯 Contents Acknowledgements 。。 The Authors.… Glossary... vii Summary… 1 1 Background.............. 1.1 Introduction.... .7 1.2 Ethnic minority penalties in the labour market................ 1.3 Policy measures to reduce inequality.................9. 1.4 Recruitment practices and discrimination in employment.........11 1.5 Field experiment approaches:actors and correspondence tests........12 2 Test design.... .15 2.1 Acorrespondence test............... .15 2.2 Number of applications per set.... 16 2.3 Conveying racial identity.............. 16 2.4 Cities… 19 2.5 Occupations......... 19 2.6 Identifying job adverts for the study.............. .20 2.7 Developing applications........... 21 2.8 Assessing response................. 23 2.8.1 Addresses...... 23 2.82 Email and telephone details. .24Contents iii Contents Acknowledgements........................................................................................... v The Authors...................................................................................................... vi Glossary........................................................................................................... vii Summary ...........................................................................................................1 1 Background .................................................................................................7 1.1 Introduction.......................................................................................7 1.2 Ethnic minority penalties in the labour market ...................................7 1.3 Policy measures to reduce inequality ..................................................9 1.4 Recruitment practices and discrimination in employment .................11 1.5 Field experiment approaches: actors and correspondence tests ........12 2 Test design.................................................................................................15 2.1 A correspondence test.....................................................................15 2.2 Number of applications per set ........................................................16 2.3 Conveying racial identity..................................................................16 2.4 Cities...............................................................................................19 2.5 Occupations ....................................................................................19 2.6 Identifying job adverts for the study.................................................20 2.7 Developing applications...................................................................21 2.8 Assessing response ..........................................................................23 2.8.1 Addresses..........................................................................23 2.82 Email and telephone details...............................................24