How Does Explicit Discrimination in Job Ads Interact with Discrimination in Callbacks? Evidence form a Correspondence Study in Mexico City

Eva Arceo-Gomez and Raymundo Campos-Vazquez

No DTE 593, Working Papers from CIDE, División de Economía

Abstract: Jobs ads often narrow their searches using gender or age requirements. These narrow searches do not rule out the existence of post-application discrimination. We test for such biases using a correspondence experiment in Mexico City. Some job advertisements explicitly discriminated against males, females, asked for beauty or requested a photograph. The experiment consisted on sending fictitious resumes responding to job advertisements with randomized information of the applicants, which included photographs representing three distinct phenotypes: white, mestizo and indigenous. The two forms of discrimination are correlated: explicitly discriminating firms tend to discriminate more against indigenous-looking females and against married females.

Keywords: Discrimination; Gender; Race; Labor marke; Mexico; Correspondence. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I24 J10 J16 J70 O54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2015-06
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