Does Job Testing Harm Minority Workers? Evidence from Retail Establishments

By David H. Autor, D. Scarborough. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Contractual and Organizational Structure with Reciprocal Agents (2008, background): “Autor and Scarborough (2008) document the hiring procedures of a large retail firm, which according to the authors are representative for the industry, that uses personality tests to screen workers upon hiring.”
Unintended Effects of Anonymous Resumes (2014, background): “Similarly, Autor and Scarborough (2008) study the conditions under which “race-blind” job testing are not necessarily “race-neutral.”
Improving the Targeting of Treatment (2012, background): “In the spirit of Autor and Scarborough (2008), who examined the trade-offs between test accuracy and equity in the context of employment screening, we examine our validity metrics by gender and racial/ ethnic identity for evidence of disparate impacts under alternative assignment rules.”
Inequality and Unemployment in a Global Economy (2009, background): “The two productivity cutoffs can be determined using firm revenue (8) and profits (9).”
Do Job Networks Disadvantage Women? Evidence from a Recruitment Experiment in Malawi (2018, background): “Related work has looked at how different hiring methods affect the recruitment of minority workers, including the race of the manager in Giuliano, Levine, and Leonard (2009) and the use of formal job testing in Autor and Scarborough (2008).”
A multidisciplinary survey on discrimination analysis (2013, background): “The impact of adopting tests in job hiring, as opposed to informal interviews, is investigated by Autor and Scarborough (2008), and evaluated on a dataset of tests submitted to retail stores.”
Minimum Wage Effects on Employment, Substitution, and the Teenage Labor Supply: Evidence from Personnel Data (2013, background): “Ahn, Arcidiacono and Wessels (2008) use CPS data to estimate a structural model and their findings are similar, suggesting substitution away from teenagers who live in poorer, less educated households and toward more affluent teens. On the other hand, Neumark and Wascher (2007) examine minimum wage ”
Taste‐Based or Statistical Discrimination: The Economics of Discrimination Returns to its Roots (2013, background): “8 Another good example of a study that explores the effect of an exogenous change in the availability of information on racial disparities, this time in a labour market setting, is Autor and Scarborough (2008).”
Ban the Box, Criminal Records, and Statistical Discrimination: A Field Experiment (2016, unknown): “Autor and Scarborough (2008) find that a retail chain’s adoption of a pre-employment personality test did not hurt black employment success even though black candidates had lower scores; they interpret this as evidence that employers were statistically discriminating before they used the test.”