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A field experiment sent 4,066 fictitious resumes across 11 cities, randomly varying policy participation and unemployment gaps after graduation. Employers discriminate former Youth Guarantee interns, especially when sectoral IT skills are absent, and discrimination changes as information is revealed. After the first lockdown, discrimination extends to regular interns too, indicating candidate ranking effects. 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A field experiment during the Covid-19 pandemic  \nArianna Gatta  \nUniversity of Queensland  \n[a.gatta@uq.edu.au](a.gatta@uq.edu.au)  \nAbstract  \nThis work aims at uncovering whether employers discriminate candidates that participated in Active Labour Market Policies at the beginning of their career, examining the case of the Youth Guarantee subsidized internships in Italy. Through a field experiment 4,066 fictious resumes were sent to employers in 11 Italian cities. The data collection was conducted throughout the first Covid-19 lockdown started in March 2020, providing a unique occasion to study employers’hiring behavior following a negative shock in the labor market. Each resume randomly displayed participation in the Youth Guarantee internship, a regular internship, or an unemployment gap after university graduation, followed by at least 32 months work experience. Employers discriminate former Youth Guarantee interns compared to those unemployed or regular interns. Discrimination is strongest when sectorial IT skills are not on the resume and disappears as more information is disclosed. Results suggest that employers perceive the program as detrimental for human capital accumulation and use it as a cue to statistically discriminate. After the lockdown, discrimination against former regular interns also emerges, revealing employers’ ranking of candidates in the labour queue. This study provides novel evidence on the long-term scarring effect of ALMPs in the form of subsidized internships.  \n1 Introduction  \nA considerable amount of literature documents discriminatory practices in the labour market. Most studies concern ethnicity (Pager 2003; Bertrand and Mullainathan 2004; Booth, Leigh and Varganova 2012; Zschirnt and Ruedin 2016; Baert and Vujić 2016; Bertrand and Duflo 2017; Quillian et al. 2017; Neumark 2018; Busetta, Campolo and Panarello 2018; Quillian et al. 2019; Larsen and Di Stasio 2021) and gender (Riach and Rich 2006; Correll, Benard and Paik 2007; Maurer-Fazio and Lei 2015; Baert, De Pauw and Deschacht 2016; Quadlin 2018; Busetta, Fiorillo and Palomba 2021; Sarsons et al. 2021; Gërxhani et al. 2022) . Much scholarly work has also been dedicated to detecting discrimination on the ground of age, disability, wealth, sexual orientation, religion, political beliefs, and many other individual characteristics (Gaddis 2018; Lippens, Baert and Vermeiren 2021) . These studies provide evidence that the labour market is far from being ameritocratic place. Employers may be sensitive to subtle cues, which could trigger a preference for one candidate over another even though they share similar skills and experience.  \nOne of the consequencesof this unequal playing field is that those discriminated against experience longer spells of unemployment (Auer, Bonoli and Fossati 2015) and more difficulties in re-entering the labour market (Van Belle et al. 2018) . In most developed countries an extensive welfare system has been created with the idea of ensuring that the playing field gets leveled, providing the same opportunities for everyone. Increased effort has gone into designing welfare policies that are meant to help people get back to work. An increasing amount of spending has been concentrated on Active Labor Market Policies (ALMPs), especially after the 2008 Great Recession (Martin 2015). However, little is known on how these policies impact recipients’ future employability from the employers’perspective.  \nThe present study aims to shed light on this aspect and attempts to answer the following research question: do employers discriminate against candidates that participated in Active Labour Market Policies (ALMPs) at the beginning of their career? Scholars only started to explore the effects ofALMPs on employers’ perception and hiring practices in recent years (Liechti et al. 2017; Van Belle et ","cbCairfQ6Cec6QQ8","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairfQ6Cec6QQ8","pdf",1388474,59,"English","# Abstract\n## Introduction\n## Research question and motivation\n## Prior literature and supply-side limits\n## Study design and policy focus","[{\"question\":\"What research question does the study address?\",\"answer\":\"The study asks whether employers discriminate against candidates who participated in Active Labour Market Policies (ALMPs) at the beginning of their careers.\"},{\"question\":\"How is the field experiment conducted?\",\"answer\":\"It sends 4,066 fictitious resumes to employers in 11 Italian cities, varying randomly whether candidates had Youth Guarantee internships, regular internships, or an unemployment gap after graduation.\"},{\"question\":\"When does discrimination appear to be strongest?\",\"answer\":\"Discrimination against former Youth Guarantee interns is strongest when sectoral IT skills are not shown on the resume, and it changes as more information is disclosed.\"}]","Do Employers Discriminate Participants in Active Labour Market Policies? - Maria Concetta Chiuri Prize 2023 | PDF",1789518856]