The Sharing Economy and Discrimination : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Sweden
To investigate whether there is unequal treatment for ethnic minorities in the sharing economy this paper conducts a field experiment on Airbnb in Sweden. The key findings report that inquiries from guests with Arabic-sounding names are 17 percentage points less likely to receive a booking invitatio...
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| Language: | English |
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Uppsala universitet, Nationalekonomiska institutionen
2019
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| Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-388843 |