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Gender and Racial Discrimination in Hiring: A Pseudo Audit Study for Three Selected Occupations in Metropolitan Lima

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Moreno, Martin (GRADE)
Ñopo, Hugo () (Middlebury College, GRADE and IZA Bonn)
Saavedra, Jaime (World Bank, GRADE)
Torero, Maximo (IFPRI, GRADE)

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In this paper, we adapt the audit studies methodology to analyze gender and racial differences in hiring for a particular segment of the market of three selected occupations in Metropolitan Lima: salespersons, secretaries and (accounting and administrative) assistants. The adapted pseudo-audit study methodology allows us to reduce the room for existence of statistical discrimination. The results suggest the existence of no significant differences in hiring rates for different gender-race groups but some systematic (and significant) differences in the aimed wages of the individuals in their job search processes.

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Keywords: field experiments discrimination occupational segregation

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C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
J4 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets
J7 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination

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  1. Alberto Chong & Hugo Ñopo, 2007. "Discrimination in Latin America: An Elephant in the Room?," RES Working Papers 1073, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department. [Downloadable!]
  2. Lunde, Trine & Skoufias, Emmanuel & Patrinos, Harry Anthony, 2007. "Indigenous peoples in Latin America : economic opportunities and social networks," Policy Research Working Paper Series 4227, The World Bank. [Downloadable!]
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