In-group gender bias in hiring: Real-world evidence
Abstract
We investigate in-group gender bias in real-world hiring decisions by combining administrative data with data from a large-scale field experiment on hiring in which fictitious resumes with randomly assigned information about gender were sent to Swedish employers. Our results suggest that women (female recruiters or firms with a high share of female employees) favor women in the recruitment process. In contrast, we do not find much evidence that...
Paper Details
Title
In-group gender bias in hiring: Real-world evidence
Published Date
Dec 1, 2019
Journal
Volume
185
Pages
108686 - 108686
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