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

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...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Applied economics letters 2016-08, Vol.23 (12), p.853-856
Hauptverfasser:	Darolia, Rajeev, Koedel, Cory, Martorell, Paco, Wilson, Katie, Perez-Arce, Francisco
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