Gender discrimination in hiring across occupations: a nationally-representative vignette study

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 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

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch
Notes
Postprint
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Labour Economics (2018) 55 ; 215-229

Classification
Wirtschaft

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Mannheim
(who)
SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
(when)
2018
Creator
Kübler, Dorothea
Schmid, Julia
Stüber, Robert

DOI
10.1016/j.labeco.2018.10.002
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021100709272221291210
Rights
Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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  • Kübler, Dorothea
  • Schmid, Julia
  • Stüber, Robert
  • SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.

Time of origin

  • 2018

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