Realities Undermine Attempts At Fairer Recruitment
The Horizons Tracker
NOVEMBER 3, 2024
In 2004, two economists published a landmark study measuring discrimination in the labor market by applying to real job openings with fictitious applicants whose names signaled different genders or races. They found clear evidence of discrimination: White men and women received 50% more callbacks than Black men and women. Recently, Berkeley researchers used the same methodology to compare racial and gender discrimination across large U.S. employers.
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