Artikel

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

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.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Journal: Labour Economics ; ISSN: 0927-5371 ; Volume: 55 ; Year: 2018 ; Pages: 215-229 ; Amsterdam: Elsevier

Classification
Wirtschaft
Design of Experiments: Other
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Labor Discrimination
Subject
gender discrimination
hiring decisions
vignette study

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Kübler, Dorothea
Schmid, Julia
Stüber, Robert
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Elsevier
ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
(where)
Amsterdam
(when)
2018

DOI
doi:10.1016/j.labeco.2018.10.002
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  • Kübler, Dorothea
  • Schmid, Julia
  • Stüber, Robert
  • Elsevier
  • ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics

Time of origin

  • 2018

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