A large-scale field experiment on occupational gender segregation and hiring discrimination |
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| Authors: | Mladen Adamovic Andreas Leibbrandt |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Human Resource Management and Employment Relations, King's Business School, King's College London, London, UK;2. Department of Economics, Monash Business School, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia |
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| Abstract: | We analyze the relationship between occupational gender composition and gender discrimination in recruitment and investigate whether there is hiring discrimination against men in female-dominated occupations. We do this with a large-scale field experiment where we submitted more than 12,000 job applications for 12 occupations in Australia, varying the gender of the applicants. Men received around 50% more callbacks than women in male-dominated occupations, while they received over 40% fewer callbacks in female-dominated occupations. |
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