Meta-analysis of field experiments shows no change in racial discrimination in hiring over time

By Lincoln Quillian, D. Pager, Ole Hexel, Arnfinn H. Midtbøen. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Mitigating bias in algorithmic hiring: evaluating claims and practices (2019, background): “We know from decades of audit studies that employers tend to discriminate against women and ethnic minorities [12, 10, 9, 52], and a recent meta-analysis suggests that little has improved over the past 25 years [75].”
Experimental Research on Labor Market Discrimination (2018, neutral): “60 Similarly, a very recent meta-analysis of US studies on discrimination against blacks and Hispanics finds that the evidence almost always points to discrimination against minorities (Quillian et al. 2017).”
Job Seeking: The Process and Experience of Looking for a Job (2020, background): “For example, in the United States, unemployment rates in 2017 were the highest for American Indians (7.8%), Blacks (7.5%), and Hispanic/Latinos (5.1%), contrasting with 3.8% for Whites and 3.4% for Asians (US Bur.”
Racial Disparities in Health Status and Access to Healthcare: The Continuation of Inequality in the United States Due to Structural Racism (2018, background): “Racial discrimination in hiring persists, and research shows that there has been no change in racial discrimination in hiring for the last 25 years (Quillian et al. 2017).”
Mixed Signals: The Unintended Effects of Diversity Initiatives (2019, background): “Although this information cannot always be kept hidden in later stages of the hiring process, it can help avoid bias in the initial screening of applications, an area where bias has been repeatedly demonstrated in labor market studies (Quillian et al., 2017).”
Ethnic discrimination in hiring: comparing groups across contexts. Results from a cross-national field experiment (2019, background): “Virtually all correspondence studies document hiring discrimination against ethnic minorities (for reviews, see Baert 2018; Bertrand and Duflo 2017; Quillian et al. 2017; Riach and Rich 2002; Zschirnt and Ruedin 2016).”