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An Experimental Study About Labor Market Discrimination: Gender, Social Class And Neighborhood

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  • David Bravo Urrutia
  • Sergio Urzúa
  • Claudia Sanhueza

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The objective of this paper is to study the Chilean labor market and determine the presence or absence of gender discrimination. In order to break past the limitations of earlier works, an experimental design is used, the first of its kind in Chile. This study also allows socioeconomic discrimination associated to names and places of residence in the Chilean labor market to be tackled.The study consists of sending fictitious Curriculum Vitae for real job vacancies published weekly in the “El Mercurio” newspaper of Santiago. A range of strictly equivalent CVs in terms of qualifications and employment experience of applicants are sent out, only varying in gender, name and surname, and place of residence. The study allows differences in call response rates to be measured for the various demographic groups. Results are obtained for more than 11,000 CVs sent.Our results show no significant differences in callback rates across groups, in contrast with what is found in other international studies.

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  • David Bravo Urrutia & Sergio Urzúa & Claudia Sanhueza, 2007. "An Experimental Study About Labor Market Discrimination: Gender, Social Class And Neighborhood," Working Papers wp263, University of Chile, Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:udc:wpaper:wp263
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    1. Leda M. Pérez & Pedro Llanos Paredes, 2015. "¿Al fondo del escalafón?: un estado de la cuestión sobre el trabajo doméstico remunerado en el Perú," Working Papers 15-01, Centro de Investigación, Universidad del Pacífico.
    2. Alberto Chong & Hugo Ñopo, 2007. "Discriminación en América Latina: Eso que (casi) todos vemos? (Discrimination in Latin America: An Elephant in the Room?)," Research Department Publications 4537, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department.
    3. Chong, Alberto E. & Ñopo, Hugo R., 2007. "Discrimination in Latin America: An Elephant in the Room?," IDB Publications (Working Papers) 1960, Inter-American Development Bank.
    4. Francisco Galarza & Gustavo Yamada & Carlos Zelada, 2015. "Cuesta arriba para los afroperuanos: evidencia de la discriminación en el acceso al mercado laboral de Lima Metropolitana," Working Papers 15-03, Centro de Investigación, Universidad del Pacífico.

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