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ERIC Number: EJ999686
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 30
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-166X
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Detecting Discrimination in Audit and Correspondence Studies
Neumark, David
Journal of Human Resources, v47 n4 p1128-1157 Fall 2012
Audit studies testing for discrimination have been criticized because applicants from different groups may not appear identical to employers. Correspondence studies address this criticism by using fictitious paper applicants whose qualifications can be made identical across groups. However, Heckman and Siegelman (1993) show that group differences in the variance of unobservable determinants of productivity still can generate spurious evidence of discrimination in either direction. This paper shows how to recover an unbiased estimate of discrimination when the correspondence study includes variation in applicant characteristics that affect hiring. The method is applied to actual data and assessed using Monte Carlo methods. (Contains 3 tables, 4 figures and 23 footnotes.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Adult Education
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Language: English
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