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Gender discrimination in hiring across occupations: a nationally-representative vignette study
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Abstract We investigate gender discrimination in a nationally-representative sample of German firms using a factorial survey design. Short CVs of fictitious applicants for apprenticeship positions are presented to human resource managers who are asked to evaluate the applicants. Women are evaluated worse tha... view more
We investigate gender discrimination in a nationally-representative sample of German firms using a factorial survey design. Short CVs of fictitious applicants for apprenticeship positions are presented to human resource managers who are asked to evaluate the applicants. Women are evaluated worse than men on average, controlling for all attributes of the CV. This measure of discrimination is robust to differences in the variance of unobservable productivity characteristics ("Heckman critique"). Discrimination against women varies across industries and occupations. Controlling for all occupation- and firm-related variables that we observe, only the share of women in an occupation correlates with discrimination.... view less
Keywords
occupational group; male profession; hiring; traineeship; discrimination; gender-specific factors; Federal Republic of Germany
Classification
Labor Market Research
Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies
Free Keywords
hiring decisions; vignette study
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Page/Pages
p. 215-229
Journal
Labour Economics (2018) 55
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/10419/213866
ISSN
0927-5371
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0