Name matters! The cost of having a foreign-sounding name in the Swedish private housing market

Both immigration and a troubling housing deficit have increased rapidly in Sweden over the past 20 years. In this internet-based field experiment, we investigated whether there exists discrimination in the Swedish private rental housing market based on the names of apartment seekers. We used a corre...

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Main Authors: Hemrin Molla, Caroline Rhawi, Elina Lampi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9176839/?tool=EBI