URL des Documents de travail : https://centredeconomiesorbonne.cnrs.fr/publications/Voir aussi l'article basé sur ce document de travail paru dans "Review of Economics of the Household",17, 349–376 (2019)Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne 2013.58 - ISSN : 1955-611XThis paper investigates the importance of ethnic homophily in the hiring discrimination process, and provides a novel test for statistical discrimination. Our evidence comes from a correspondence test performed in France, in which we use three different kinds of ethnic identification: French sounding names, North African sounding names, and "foreign" sounding names with no clear ethnic association. Within both male and female groups, we show that all non-Fren...