Better residential than ethnic discrimination! : Reconciling audit’s and interview findings in the Parisian housing market
Fiche du document
2016
- handle: 10670/1.vd45rh
- hal: hal-01112450
- doi: 10.1177/0042098015596107
- SCIENCESPO: 2441/chhq38puf8c1pmc4hdah6ev58
Ce document est lié à :
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1177/0042098015596107
Ce document est lié à :
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/hdl/2441/chhq38puf8c1pmc4hdah6ev58
info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess
Mots-clés
Housing Market Neighborhood Effects DiscriminationSujets proches
BiasCiter ce document
François Bonnet et al., « Better residential than ethnic discrimination! : Reconciling audit’s and interview findings in the Parisian housing market », HAL-SHS : sociologie, ID : 10.1177/0042098015596107
Métriques
Partage / Export
Résumé
This article investigates discrimination and the interplay of residential and ethnic stigma on the French housing market using two different methods, paired-testing au- dit study of real estate agencies and face-to-face interviews with real estate agents. The juxtaposition of their findings leads to a paradox: interviews reveal high levels of ethnic discrimination but little to none residential discrimination, while the audit study shows that living in deprived suburbs is associated with a lower probability of obtaining an appointment for a housing vacancy but ethnic origin (signaled by the candidate’s name) has no significant discriminatory effect. We have three priors po- tentially consistent with this apparent paradox and re-evaluate their likelihood in light of these findings: (i) agents make use of any statistical information about insolvency, including residency; (ii) there are two distinct and independent taste discriminations, one about space and one about ethnicity; (iii) these two dimensions exist and comple- ment each other.