Anonymous job applications of fresh Ph.D. economists

Annabelle Krause-Pilatus, Ulf Rinne and Klaus Zimmermann ()

Economics Letters, 2012, vol. 117, issue 2, 441-444

Abstract: This paper analyzes anonymous job applications of Ph.D. economists in the academic job market. We use data on interview invitations from a randomized experiment at a European-based research institution. Results show that the underrepresented gender was hurt by anonymous applications.

Keywords: Annual job market; Discrimination; Randomized experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J20 J44 J79 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.06.029

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