Measuring Employment Discrimination through Controlled Experiments

Author:

Bendick Marc,Jackson Charles W.,Reinoso Victor A.

Abstract

Race/ethnic discrimination in hiring can be measured under controlled conditions using matched pairs of minority and nonminority research assistants posing as applicants for the same job. In 149 in-person job applications in the Washington, D.C., labor market, African American applicants were treated less favorably than equally qualified nonminorities more than one-fifth of the time. Employer behavior during these interactions suggest that, within continued public and private efforts against discrimination, particular attention should be accorded to the cognitive underpinnings of bias.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Economics and Econometrics,Cultural Studies

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