How does labour market history influence the access to hiring interviews?

Emmanuel Duguet, Rémi Le Gall, Yannick L’Horty and Pascale Petit

International Journal of Manpower, 2018, vol. 39, issue 4, 519-533

Abstract: Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence of the effect of labour market status on the current probability to be invited to a hiring interview. The authors compare the effect of periods of unemployment, part-time job and short-term contracts (STCs). Design/methodology/approach - Correspondence tests were conducted for accountants and sales assistants. The authors estimate the discrimination components from the response rate of each candidate by the asymptotic least squares method. Findings - The authors find that men with a part-time profile suffer discrimination in both professions. Other differences of treatment are specific: for accountants, the authors find that the probability of success decreases with the time spent in unemployment, while for sales assistants the probability of success is smaller with a history of STCs. Originality/value - This study compares the effect of different dimensions of career history (part-time versus full-time, permanent versus short-term, unemployment versus employment) for experienced job candidates. It also proposes an alternative way to exploit the design of a correspondence experiment.

Keywords: France; Unemployment; Discrimination; Discrimination in employment; Part-time workers; Hiring; Labour market history; Part-time job; C51; C93; J16; J24; J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1108/IJM-09-2017-0231

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