Race and Gender Effects on Employer Interest in Job Applicants: New Evidence from a Resume Field Experiment

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

No 1419, Working Papers from Department of Economics, University of Missouri

Abstract: We sent nearly 9,000 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 socioeconomic connotation is not implicated. We find little evidence of systematic employer preferences for applicants from particular race and gender groups

Keywords: Employment; Discrimination; Race/Ethnicity; Gender; Field Experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 8 pgs.
Date: 2014-10-20
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-exp, nep-lab and nep-ure
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