The encouragement and benefits of a diverse workforce.

The existing literature on labor market discrimination reports that awareness campaigns help to reduce this fundamental problem. Moreover, it is argued that a diverse workplace results in higher financial returns, more innovations and happier employees. This thesis elaborates on this field by analyzing the 2015 Dutch “Zet een Streep door Discriminatie” anti-discrimination campaign with a difference-in-difference model. With this model, Belgian and Dutch data (provided respectively by CBS (2019) and Arvastat (2018)) on minority unemployment rates will be compared. Furthermore, this study looks at the potential benefits of a more diverse organization for job satisfaction, by estimating a fixed effects model. This has been done by merging data from CBS (2019) and LISS (2018). The results of this thesis indicate that the Dutch anti-discrimination campaign did significantly reduce labor market discrimination. However, this paper did not find evidence for the benefits of a more diverse job sector. A more uniform job sector insignificantly reduces job satisfaction scores.