An Experimental Investigation of Sexual Discrimination in Hiring in the English Labor Market

By P. Riach, J. Rich. 2006

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Law, Sociology and Political Science

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The individual experience of unemployment. (2012, background): “In a study in Britain, gender discrimination occurred when women applied to male-dominated jobs and when men applied to female-dominated jobs (Riach & Rich 2006 ).”
Ethnic Discrimination in the Dutch Labor Market (2012, methodology): “Due to the methodological difficulties in measuring discrimination, the sociological and economic literature is displaying a growing interest in field experiments as a method of empirical investigation of labor market discrimination (Riach & Rich, 2006).”
A field experiment to study sex and age discrimination in the Madrid labour market (2011, methodology): “In any case, as mentioned by Riach and Rich (2006a), in such studies the bulk of discrimination has always been detected at the first (invitation to interview) stage.”
Field experiments in labor economics (2010, background): “Again, rather than provide a broad summary of the received results, we point the reader to Yinger (1998) and Riach and Rich (2002), who provide nice reviews of the product market studies.”
Gender and the Labor Market: What Have We Learned from Field and Lab Experiments? (2014, background): “Clearly, this approach addresses the issue of confounding unobservables in survey data estimates, but it would be unable to address pre-labor market discrimination.”
Children and the Remaining Gender Gaps in the Labor Market (2020, unknown): “For example, Riach and Rich (2006) conduct a resume audit study in four occupations in the UK (i.e. accountants, computer programmers, engineers, and secretaries) and find evidence of discrimination against women in the male-dominated occupations, while men were discriminated against in…”
A multidisciplinary survey on discrimination analysis (2013, background): “Other grounds of discrimination covered by correspondencetesting in job applications include sex (Riach & Rich, 2006; Booth & Leigh, 2010), obesity, and physical appearance (Rooth, 2009; Bóo et al., 2012), sexual orientation (Drydakis, 2009), ethnicity (McGinnity et al., 2009; Carlsson and…”
Race and gender effects on employer interest in job applicants: new evidence from a resume field experiment (2016, background): “Gender-based gaps have also received considerable attention in the literature (e.g. see Blau and Kahn 2000; Booth and Leigh 2010; Croson and Gneezy 2009; Gerhart 1990; Riach and Rich 2006).”
Do Employers Discriminate by Gender? A Field Experiment in Female-Dominated Occupations (2010, unknown): “For less female-dominated occupations, we find no significant bias towards either sex, in contrast to Riach and Rich (2006).”