Field Experimental Evidence on Gender Discrimination in Hiring: Biased as Heckman and Siegelman Predicted?

Abstract: Correspondence studies are nowadays viewed as the most compelling avenue to test for hiring discrimination. However, these studies suffer from one fundamental methodological problem, as formulated by Heckman and Siegelman (The Urban Institute audit studies: Their methods and findings. In M. Fix, and R. Struyk (Eds.), Clear and convincing evidence: Measurement of discrimination in America, 1993), namely the bias in their results in case of group differences in the variance of unobserved determinants of hiring outcomes. In this study, the authors empirically investigate this bias in the context of gender discrimination. The authors do not find significant evidence for the feared bias.

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Field Experimental Evidence on Gender Discrimination in Hiring: Biased as Heckman and Siegelman Predicted? ; volume:9 ; number:1 ; year:2015 ; extent:13
Economics / Journal articles. Journal articles ; 9, Heft 1 (2015) (gesamt 13)

Urheber
Baert, Stijn

DOI
10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2015-25
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2412130950107.311107942124
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15.08.2025, 07:30 MESZ

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