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Table 4 Distribution of employers’ responses to the fictitious job applicants

From: The employability of ex-offenders: a field experiment in the Swedish labor market

Occupation

Number of employers

Neither

Both

Non-offender

Ex-offender

Net discrimination

Accounting clerk

74

53

2

17

2

−15***

Auto mechanic

66

46

12

5

3

−2

Cleaner

132

111

9

11

1

−10***

Enrolled nurse

71

43

7

14

7

−7

Preschool teacher

136

69

30

36

1

−35***

Restaurant worker

301

220

40

34

7

−27***

Salesperson

69

43

11

12

3

−9**

Software developer

71

36

14

19

2

−17***

Truck driver

119

101

10

3

5

2

All occupations

1039

722

135

151

31

−120***

  1. Notes: “Neither” and “Both” are the number of cases in which both applicants failed and succeeded, respectively, and “Ex-offender” and “Non-offender” are the number of cases in which only the applicant with and without a criminal history, respectively, succeeded to receive a positive response from an employer. “Net discrimination” is the difference between cases given in columns “Ex-offender” and “Non-offender.” The null hypothesis of symmetry between the number of employers who favored the non-offender and the number of employers who favored the ex-offender was evaluated using a two-sided binomial exact test
  2. ***p < 0.01, **p < 0.05