Race and gender effects on employer interest in job applicants: new evidence from a resume field experiment

Rajeev Darolia, Cory Koedel, Paco Martorell, Katie Wilson and Francisco Perez-Arce

Applied Economics Letters, 2016, vol. 23, issue 12, 853-856

Abstract: We sent nearly 9000 fictitious resumes to advertisements for job openings in seven major cities in the United States across six occupational categories. We randomly assigned names to the resumes that convey race and gender but for which a strong socio-economic connotation is not implicated. We find little evidence of systematic employer preferences for applicants from particular race and gender groups.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2015.1114571

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