Gender and Racial Discrimination in Hiring: A Pseudo Audit Study for Three Selected Occupations in Metropolitan Lima

Hugo Ñopo, Martin Moreno, Jaime Saavedra and Maximo Torero

Middlebury College Working Paper Series from Middlebury College, Department of Economics

Abstract: In this paper, we adapt the audit studies methodology to analyze gender and racial differences in hiring for a particular segment of the market of three selected occupations in Metropolitan Lima: salespersons, secretaries and (accounting and administrative) assistants. The adapted pseudo-audit study methodology allow us to reduce the room for existence of statistical discrimination. The results suggest the existence of no significant differences in hiring rates for different gender-race groups but some systematic (and significant) differences in the aimed wages of the individuals in their job search processes.

Keywords: field experiments; discrimination; occupational segregation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 D63 J4 J7 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2003-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-lam, nep-mic and nep-ure
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