TY - JOUR
T1 - Race and gender effects on employer interest in job applicants
T2 - new evidence from a resume field experiment
AU - Darolia, Rajeev
AU - Koedel, Cory
AU - Martorell, Paco
AU - Wilson, Katie
AU - Perez-Arce, Francisco
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2016/8/12
Y1 - 2016/8/12
N2 - We sent nearly 9000 fictitious resumes to advertisements for job openings in seven major cities in the United States across six occupational categories. We randomly assigned names to the resumes that convey race and gender but for which a strong socio-economic connotation is not implicated. We find little evidence of systematic employer preferences for applicants from particular race and gender groups.
AB - We sent nearly 9000 fictitious resumes to advertisements for job openings in seven major cities in the United States across six occupational categories. We randomly assigned names to the resumes that convey race and gender but for which a strong socio-economic connotation is not implicated. We find little evidence of systematic employer preferences for applicants from particular race and gender groups.
KW - Discrimination
KW - field experiment
KW - resume audit study
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U2 - 10.1080/13504851.2015.1114571
DO - 10.1080/13504851.2015.1114571
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84947922913
SN - 1350-4851
VL - 23
SP - 853
EP - 856
JO - Applied Economics Letters
JF - Applied Economics Letters
IS - 12
ER -