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Detecting discrimination in the hiring process: evidence from an Internet-based search channel

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Eriksson, Stefan () (Department of Economics, Uppsala University)
Lagerström, Jonas () (IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation)

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This paper uses data from an Internet-based CV database to investigate how factors which may be used as a basis for discrimination, such as the searchers’ ethnicity, gender, age and employment status, affect the number of contacts they receive from firms. Since we have access to essentially the same information as the firms, we can handle the problems associated with unobserved heterogeneity better than most existing studies of discrimination. We find that, even when we control for all other differences, searchers who have non-Nordic names, are old or unemployed receive significantly fewer contacts. Moreover, we find that this matters for the hiring outcome: Searchers who receive more contacts have a higher probability of actually getting hired.

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Paper provided by IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation in its series Working Paper Series with number 2007:19.

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Date of creation: 25 Aug 2007
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Keywords: Job search Unobserved heterogeneity Discrimination

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J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing

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  1. Belzil, Christian, 1996. "Relative Efficiencies and Comparative Advantages in Job Search," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 14(1), pages 154-73, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Blau, David M & Robins, Philip K, 1990. "Job Search Outcomes for the Employed and Unemployed," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 98(3), pages 637-55, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  3. P. A. Riach & J. Rich, 2002. "Field Experiments of Discrimination in the Market Place," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 112(483), pages 480-518, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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