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An Experimental Investigation of Sexual Discrimination in Hiring in the English Labor Market

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Peter Riach (Bloomsbury, London)
Judith Rich (University of Portsmouth)

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Abstract

Pairs of carefully-matched, written applications were made to advertised job vacancies in England to test for sexual discrimination in hiring. Two standard résumés were constructed for each occupation to control for all relevant supply-side variables, such as qualifications, experience and age. Consequently any differential response recorded can be attributed to demand-side discrimination. Statistically significant discrimination against men was found in the `female occupation' - secretary, and against women in the `male occupation' - engineer. Statistically significant, and unprecedented, discrimination against men was found in two `mixed occupations' - trainee chartered accountant and computer analyst programmer.

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Volume (Year): 6 (2006)
Issue (Month): 2 ()
Pages: 1416-1416
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Keywords: discrimination employment field experiment hiring sex

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J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing

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  8. Neumark, David, 1996. "Sex Discrimination in Restaurant Hiring: An Audit Study," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, MIT Press, vol. 111(3), pages 915-41, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. Edin, Per-Anders & Lagerström, Jonas, 2006. "Blind dates: quasi-experimental evidence on discrimination," Working Paper Series 2006:4, IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation. [Downloadable!]
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