Also, employers are prohibited from advertising jobs that target certain genders, races, or socioeconomic statuses, among other demographical data. Despite these laws discrimination has been seen based on a number of these factors. Similar to the gender box the race box on job applications provides another opportunity for discrimination. Statistically significant data continues to accumulate with regard to discrimination against African American’s applying to jobs. Specifically, applications with stereotypically “black sounding” names are far less likely to be called back for interviews or hired then “nonblack sounding” names. An experiment conducted by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) faculty research fellows Marianne Betrard and Sendhil Mullianathan measured this discrimination. Their study was called “ Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field experiment on Labor Market Discrimination”. This fascinating study
Also, employers are prohibited from advertising jobs that target certain genders, races, or socioeconomic statuses, among other demographical data. Despite these laws discrimination has been seen based on a number of these factors. Similar to the gender box the race box on job applications provides another opportunity for discrimination. Statistically significant data continues to accumulate with regard to discrimination against African American’s applying to jobs. Specifically, applications with stereotypically “black sounding” names are far less likely to be called back for interviews or hired then “nonblack sounding” names. An experiment conducted by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) faculty research fellows Marianne Betrard and Sendhil Mullianathan measured this discrimination. Their study was called “ Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field experiment on Labor Market Discrimination”. This fascinating study