abstract: 'Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the association between

  firm size and hiring discrimination against women, ethnic minorities and

  older job candidates.

  Design/methodology/approach The authors merge field experimental

  measures on unequal treatment with firm-level data. The resulting data

  enable the authors to assess whether discrimination varies by indicators

  of firm size, keeping other firm characteristics constant.

  Findings In contrast with the theoretical expectations, the authors find

  no evidence for an association between firm size and hiring

  discrimination. On the other hand, the authors do find suggestive

  evidence for hiring discrimination being lower in respect of public or

  non-profit firms (compared to commercial firms).

  Social implications To effectively combat hiring discrimination, one

  needs to understand its driving factors. In other words, to design

  adequate policy actions, targeted to the right employers in the right

  way, one has to gain insight into when individuals are discriminated in

  particular, i.e. into the moderators of labour market discrimination. In

  this study, the authors focus on firm size as a moderator of hiring

  discrimination.

  Originality/value Former contributions investigated this association

  within the context of ethnic discrimination only and included hardly any

  controls for other firm-level drivers of discrimination. The authors are

  the first to study the heterogeneity in discrimination by firm size with

  respect to multiple discrimination grounds and control for additional

  firm characteristics.'
affiliation: 'Baert, S (Corresponding Author), Univ Ghent, Ghent, Belgium.

  Baert, Stijn; De Meyer, Ann-Sofie; Moerman, Yentl; Omey, Eddy, Univ Ghent, Ghent,
  Belgium.'
author: Baert, Stijn and De Meyer, Ann-Sofie and Moerman, Yentl and Omey, Eddy
author-email: Stijn.Baert@UGent.be
author_list:
- family: Baert
  given: Stijn
- family: De Meyer
  given: Ann-Sofie
- family: Moerman
  given: Yentl
- family: Omey
  given: Eddy
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1108/IJM-09-2017-0239
eissn: 1758-6577
files: []
issn: 0143-7720
journal: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANPOWER
keywords: Gender; Age; Firm size; Ethnicity; Discrimination; Hiring
keywords-plus: 'LABOR-MARKET; FIELD EXPERIMENT; ETHNIC DISCRIMINATION; AGE; EMPLOYMENT;

  ACCESS; 1ST'
language: English
number: 4, SI
number-of-cited-references: '44'
orcid-numbers: Baert, Stijn/0000-0002-1660-5165
pages: 550-566
papis_id: 80896df17c2e9cc00aa7ff1695ce0439
ref: Baert2018doessize
times-cited: '10'
title: Does size matter? Hiring discrimination and firm size
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000438870200004
usage-count-last-180-days: '4'
usage-count-since-2013: '41'
volume: '39'
web-of-science-categories: Industrial Relations \& Labor; Management
year: '2018'