Detecting discrimination in audit and correspondence studies.

Autor/in	Neumark, David
Titel	Detecting discrimination in audit and correspondence studies.
Quelle	In: Journal of human resources, 47 (2012) 4, S. 1128-1157 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-166X; 1548-8004
DOI	10.1353/jhr.2012.0032
Schlagwörter	Empirische Sozialforschung; Forschungsmethode; Verhalten; Experiment; Rasse; Monte-Carlo-Methode; Diskriminierung; Rassismus; Personalauswahl; Produktivität; Arbeitsproduktivität; Arbeitsuchender; Qualifikationsniveau; Differenz; Geschlechtsspezifik; Ethnische Gruppe; Minderheit; Schwarzer; Weißer; USA
Abstract	"Audit studies testing for discrimination have been criticized because applicants from different groups may not appear identical to employers. Correspondence studies address this criticism by using fictitious paper applicants whose qualifications can be made identical across groups. However, Heckman and Siegelman (1993) show that group differences in the variance of unobservable determinants of productivity still can generate spurious evidence of discrimination in either direction. This paper shows how to recover an unbiased estimate of discrimination when the correspondence study includes variation in applicant characteristics that affect hiring. The method is applied to actual data and assessed using Monte Carlo methods." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2013/2