Gender discrimination in hiring: An experimental reexamination of the Swedish case

Ali Ahmed, Mark Granberg and Shantanu Khanna ()

PLOS ONE, 2021, vol. 16, issue 1, 1-15

Abstract: We estimated the degree of gender discrimination in Sweden across occupations using a correspondence study design. Our analysis of employer responses to more than 3,200 fictitious job applications across 15 occupations revealed that overall positive employer response rates were higher for women than men by almost 5 percentage points. We found that this gap was driven by employer responses in female-dominated occupations. Male applicants were about half as likely as female applicants to receive a positive employer response in female-dominated occupations. For male-dominated and mixed occupations we found no significant differences in positive employer responses between male and female applicants.

Date: 2021
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