Disclosure Discrimination: An Experiment Focusing on Communication in the Hiring Process

Sona Badalyan, Darya Korlyakova and Rastislav Rehak

CERGE-EI Working Papers from The Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economics Institute, Prague

Abstract: We focus on communication among hiring team members and document the existence of discrimination in the disclosure of information about candidates. In particular, we conduct an online experiment with a nationally representative sample of Czech individuals who act as human resource assistants and hiring managers in our online labor market. The main novel feature of our experiment is the monitoring of information flow between human resource assistants and hiring managers. We exogenously manipulate candidates’ names to explore the causal effects of their gender and nationality on information that assistants select for managers. Our findings reveal that assistants disclose more information about family and less information about work for female candidates relative to male candidates. An in-depth analysis of the disclosed information suggests that gender stereotypes play an important role in this disclosure discrimination. Furthermore, assistants disclose less information about foreigners overall. This effect appears to be driven by the less attention assistants are willing to devote to the CVs of foreigners, measured by the extra effort to learn more about the candidates.

Keywords: Information; Disclosure; Hiring; Discrimination; Foreigners; Women; Online Experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C90 D83 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-02
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