which sent out thousands of responses to job adverts using fictional characters
Reflecting a growing anti-Muslim discrimination in job market, a new study found that practicing Muslim men are four times less likely to get a job interview in France than their Catholic counterparts.
The study, by the Montaigne Institute think tank, showed that 4.7% of practicing Muslims had been asked for a job interview, compared to 17.9% of practicing Catholics.
According to the think tank, which sent out thousands of responses to job adverts using fictional characters, Catholic women and men were twice as likely as Muslims to get a call back for a job interview.
Carried out by Marie-Anne Valfort, a senior lecturer at Sorbonne University in Paris, the study was based on 6,231 responses to job adverts between 2013 and 2014.
Valort believes that the study represents a small portion of discrimination faced by Muslim applicants as it did not continue to the interview stage.
The study comes at tense time for the country’s six million Muslims who have been facing increasing hatred since Paris attacks last January.
Reflecting growing anti-Muslim sentiments, the Paris-based Collective against Islamophobia in France organization revealed that Islamophobic acts in France have increased by 23.5 percent in the first six months of 2015, compared with the same period last year.
