Employment Discrimination against Indigenous Peoples in the United States: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Patrick Button () and Brigham Walker

No 25849, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We conducted a resume correspondence experiment to measure discrimination in hiring faced by Indigenous Peoples in the United States (Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians). We sent employers realistic 13,516 resumes for common jobs (retail sales, kitchen staff, server, janitor, and security) in 11 cities and compared callback rates. We signaled Indigenous status in one of four different ways. We almost never find any differences in callback rates, regardless of the context. These findings hold after numerous robustness checks, although our checks and discussions raise multiple concerns that are relevant to audit studies generally.

JEL-codes: C93 J15 J7 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-05
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Published as Patrick Button & Brigham Walker, 2020. "Employment discrimination against Indigenous Peoples in the United States: Evidence from a field experiment," Labour Economics, vol 65.

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