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Thu 05 May 2009Irish job applicants favoured, says ESRI
JOB APPLICANTS with typical Irish names are twice as likely to be called for interview as those with minority names, according to a groundbreaking study by the ESRI.
In the first experiment of its kind in Ireland, researchers found that candidates with non-Irish names were subjected to “strong discrimination” by employers across the three sectors of the labour market that were tested.
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