ABSTRACT

This explorative study examines the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on ethnic discrimination. By means of 482 pairwise matched correspondence tests in pre-Covid times and 440 tests in Covid times, we examine discrimination against candidates of Maghrebian and Congolese origin on the housing market of a metropolitan city in Belgium. While the absolute invitation rates decreased for both Maghrebian and Belgian candidates at almost the same pace in Covid times, the relative net rate of discrimination of Maghrebian candidates increased significantly from 20% to 36%. With respect to candidates of Congolese origin, the absolute invitation rate only decreased sharply for Belgian candidates but not for Congolese candidates, with declining relative net rates of discrimination from 17% to 6% as a consequence. This suggests that the effect of Covid-19 on discrimination is different for different ethnic groups.

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这项探索性研究考察了Covid-19大流行对种族歧视的影响。通过在Covid之前的时间进行482对配对匹配测验，并在Covid时期进行440项测试，我们研究了比利时大城市房屋市场上对Maghrebian和刚果人候选人的歧视。在Covid时代，Maghrebian和比利时候选人的绝对邀请率几乎以相同的速度下降，而Maghrebian候选人的相对净歧视率却从20％显着提高到36％。关于刚果裔候选人，比利时候选人的绝对邀请率仅急剧下降，而刚果候选人则没有，绝对相对歧视率从17％下降到6％。