In-group gender bias in hiring: Real-world evidence

Magnus Carlsson and Stefan Eriksson

Economics Letters, 2019, vol. 185, issue C

Abstract: We investigate in-group gender bias in real-world hiring decisions by combining administrative data with data from a large-scale field experiment on hiring in which fictitious resumes with randomly assigned information about gender were sent to Swedish employers. Our results suggest that women (female recruiters or firms with a high share of female employees) favor women in the recruitment process. In contrast, we do not find much evidence that men (male recruiters or firms with a high share of male employees) favor men.

Keywords: In-group gender bias; Discrimination; Field experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J23 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2019.108686

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