Black Job Applicants and the Hiring Officer's Race

Michael A. Stoll, Steven Raphael and Harry Holzer

ILR Review, 2004, vol. 57, issue 2, 267-287

Abstract: Recent studies have consistently found that in the United States, black job applicants are hired at a greater rate by establishments with black hiring agents than by those with white hiring agents. The results of this examination of data from the 1992–94 Multi-City Employer Survey suggest two proximate reasons for this pattern: black hiring agents receive applications from blacks at greater rates than do white hiring agents, and they hire a greater proportion of blacks who apply. The authors suggest that moving more blacks into positions with hiring authority within firms might help to alleviate the persistent unemployment difficulties of African Americans.

Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1177/001979390405700206

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