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- Title
Do Men Favor Men in Recruitment? A Field Experiment in the Swedish Labor Market.
- Authors
Erlandsson, Anni
- Abstract
Utilizing a field experiment design, this article examines whether discrimination based on any combination of job applicant gender and recruiter gender occurs in the first stage of the recruitment process, that is, selecting applicants to be contacted. This study includes 1,643 job applications in the Swedish labor market. Overall, based on the callbacks received, male recruiters, unlike female recruiters, are found to contact male applicants more often than female applicants. The results show a pro-male bias by male recruiters in gender-mixed occupations, whereas no significant gender differences in callbacks by recruiter gender are found in male- and female-dominated occupations.
- Subjects
SWEDEN; SEX discrimination in employment; EMPLOYEE recruitment; LABOR market; JOB applications
- Publication
Work & Occupations, 2019, Vol 46, Issue 3, p239
- ISSN
0730-8884
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0730888419849467