Is it Sex or Personality? The Impact of Sex-Stereotypes on Discrimination in Applicant Selection

By Doris Weichselbaumer. 2000

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Women's Sexual Orientation and Labor Market Outcomes in Greece (2011, background): “However, as Weichselbaumer (2003, 2004) has shown, gender identity does not have a statistically significant overall impact on labor market outcomes.”
FIELD EXPERIMENTS O F D ISCRIMINATION IN T HE MARKET PLACE (2002, unknown): “Photographs of the applicants were attached to the job applications (a normal procedure in Austria) and independent tests of the curriculum vitae indicated that the photographs were effective in conveying the different female personality types (Weichselbaumer, 2000, pp. 19–20).”
Is There Less Discrimination in Occupations Where Recruitment Is Difficult? (2015, background): “…based on, for example, 1) gender in Austria, france, and spain; 2) beauty in sweden; and 3) sexual orientation in Austria, Greece, and sweden (weichselbaumer 2003, 2004; Petit 2007; Drydakis 2009; Rooth 2009; Albert, escot, and fernández-cornejo 2011; Ahmed, Andersson, and hammarstedt 2013).…”
Sexual orientation discrimination in the United Kingdom’s labour market: A field experiment (2015, methodology): “In addition, it might be suggested that firms that seek employees with stereotypically feminine traits should be more likely to have biased attitudes towards lesbians if they prefer personality characteristics that lesbians are stereotypically assumed to lack (Heilman, 1995; Van Vianen and Willemsen”
An Experimental Investigation of Sexual Discrimination in Hiring in the English Labor Market (2006, background): “Neumark et. al. and Weichselbaumer (2004) consider the possibility that personality traits, rather than discrimination, might be the explanation for differential treatment.”
A field experiment to study sex and age discrimination in the Madrid labour market (2011, methodology): “…Kenney and Wissoker 1994; Neumark, Bank and Van Nort 1996; Prada, Actis and Pereda 1996; Bertrand and Mullainathan 2004; Duguet and Petit 2004; Weichselbaumer 2004), discrimination in access to housing (Wienk, Reid, Simonson and Eggers 1979; Yinger 1986; Galster and Constantine 1991; Ahmed…”