Employer discrimination in Bulgaria

How organizational context shapes ethnic preferences

verfasst von

Christian Imdorf, Rumiana Stoilova, Matthias Pohlig, Katerina Katsarska

Abstract

This chapter underpins the thesis that hiring practices substantially cause the labour market exclusion experienced by many young adults of Roma origin in Bulgaria. Therefore, we stress that ethnic discrimination is not foremost an ‘individual accident’ of human resource managers but rather a ‘rationalized’ form of decision-making in the hiring process that is embedded in anticipated ‘productive communities’ (Leistungsgemeinschaften) (Scherr et al. 2015). We examine data from a Bulgarian employer survey to analyze whether and why the ethnic origin of job candidates matters when hiring new staff. Section 2 outlines the disadvantageous positioning of young Roma individuals in the educational system and on the labour market. Section 3 specifies the conceptual framework to theoretically embed our research question, and Section 4 presents the data and findings of the empirical study. Section 5 summarizes the results and draws conclusions.

Organisationseinheit(en)

Institut für Soziologie

Externe Organisation(en)

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS)

Typ

Beitrag in Buch/Sammelwerk

Anzahl der Seiten

25

Publikationsdatum

11.12.2024

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung

SDG 10 – Weniger Ungleichheiten