Do anonymous job application procedures level the playing field?

Industrial and Labor Relations Review

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 82-107

  Åslund, Olof ^a   Skans, Oskar Nordström ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b IFAU   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Employment; Ethnicity; Gender

Indexed keywords

EID: 84255168519     PISSN: 00197939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/001979391206500105     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Agocs, Carol and Catherine Burr. 1995. Employment equity, affirmative action and managing diversity: Assessing the differences. International Journal of Manpower, 17 (4/5): 30-45.
2. Ahmed, Ali. 2005. Essays on the Behavioral Economics of Discrimination. Doctoral dissertation. Växjö University Press.
3. Ahmed, Ali. 2010. Muslim Discrimination: Evidence from two lost-letter experiments. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 40(4): 888-98.
4. Ahmed, Ali, and Mats Hammarstedt. 2008. Discrimination in the rental housing market: A field experiment on the Internet. Journal of Urban Economics, 64(2): 362-72.
5. Ai, Chunrong, and Edward C. Norton. 2003. Interaction terms in logit and probit models. Economics Letters, 80(1): 123-29. (Pubitemid 36598410)
6. Alesina, Alberto, and Eliana la Ferrara. 2005. Ethnic diversity and economic performance. Journal of Economic Literature, 43(3): 762-800. (Pubitemid 41598252)
7. Altonji, Joseph G., and Rebecca M. Blank. 1999. Race and gender in the labor market. In Orley Ashenfelter and David Card (Eds.), Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 3, pp. 3143-59. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
8. Arai, Mahmood, and Roger Vilhelmsson. 2004. Unemployment-risk differentials between immigrant and native workers in Sweden. Industrial Relations, 43(3): 690-98. (Pubitemid 38978728)
9. Åslund, Olof, and Oskar Nordström Skans. 2007. Do anonymous job application procedures level the playing field? IFAU Working paper 2007:31.
10. Åslund, Olof, and Oskar Nordström Skans. 2010. Will I see you at work?: Ethnic workplace segregation in Sweden 1985-2002.Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 63(3): 471-93.
11. Åslund, Olof, and Peter Fredriksson. 2009. Peer effects in welfare dependence-Quasi-experimental evidence. Journal of Human Resources, 44(3): 798-825.
12. Åslund, Olof, Lena Hensvik, and Oskar N. Skans. 2009. Seeking similarity: How immigrants manage at the labor market. IZA Discussion paper 4640.
13. Bertrand, Marianne, and Sendhil Mullainathan. 2004. Are Emily and Gregg more employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A field experiment on labor market discrimination. American Economic Review, 94(4): 991-1013.
14. Bettinger, Eric P., Bridget Terry Long, Philip Oreopoulos, and Lisa Sanbonmatsu. 2009. The role of simplification and information in college decisions: Results from the H&R Block FAFSA experiment. NBER Working paper 15361.
15. Browne, Irene and Joya Misra. 2003. The intersection of gender and race in the labor market. Annual Review of Sociology, 29: 487-513. (Pubitemid 37395379)
16. Burke, Peter James. 2006. Contemporary Social Psychological Theories. Stanford University Press.
17. Carlsson, Magnus. 2009. An experimental study of sex segregation in the labor market-Is discrimination the explanation? In Magnus Carlsson, Essays on discrimination in hiring. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Acta Wexionensia No 189/2009. Växjö University.
18. Carlsson, Magnus, and Dan-Olof Rooth. 2007. Evidence of discrimination in the Swedish labor market using experimental data. Labour Economics, 14(4): 716-29.
19. Edin, Per-Anders, and Jonas Lagerström. 2006. Blind dates: quasi-experimental evidence on discrimination. IFAU Working Paper 2006:4.
20. Eriksson, Stefan. 2007. Arbetsutbud och sysselsättning bland personer med utländsk bakgrund. En kunskapsöversikt. Ds 2007:4, Finansdepartementet, Stockholm.
21. Eriksson, Stefan, and Jonas Lagerström. 2007. Detecting discrimination in the hiring process: Evidence from an internet-based search channel. IFAU Working paper 2007:19.
22. Gatewood, Robert D., Hubert S. Field, and Murray R. Barrick. 2008. Human Resource Selection, 6th ed. Mason, OH: Thomson/South-Western.
23. Giuliano, Laura, David I. Levine and Jonathan Leonard. 2009. Manager Race and the Race of New Hires," Journal of Labor Economics, 27(4): 589-631.
24. Goldin, Claudia, and Cecilia Rouse. 2000. Orchestrating impartiality: The impact of "blind" auditions on female musicians. American Economic Review 90(4): 715-41.
25. Heckman, James J. 1998. Detecting discrimination. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 12(2): 101-16. (Pubitemid 128457439)
26. Holm, H. Jerker. 2000. What's in a name? An ethnical discrimination experiment. Working Paper 2000:3. Department of Economics, Lund University.
27. Ioannides, Yannis M. 2010. A Review of Scott E. Page's "The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools and Societies," Journal of Economic Literature, 48(1), 108-122.
28. Kalev, Alexandra, Frank Dobbin, and Erin Kelly. 2006. Best practices or best guesses? Assessing the efficacy of corporate affirmative action and diversity policies. American Sociological Review, 71(4): 589-617. (Pubitemid 44473382)
29. Lange, Anders. 1999. Diskriminering, Integration och Etniska Relationer. Norrköping: Integrationsverket.
30. Lazear, Edward P. 1999. Culture and language. Journal of Political Economy, 107(6): 95-126.
31. le Grand, Carl, and Ryszard Szulkin. 2002. Permanent disadvantage or gradual integration: Explaining the immigrant- native earnings gap in Sweden. Labour, 16(1): 37-64. (Pubitemid 34186543)
32. Mella, Orlando, and Irene Palm. 2009. Mångfaldsbarometern 2009. Department of Sociology, Uppsala University.
33. Meyersson, Milgrom, Eva M. Trond Petersen, and Vemund Snartland. 2001. Equal pay for equal work? Evidence from Sweden and a comparison with Norway and the US. Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 103(4): 559-83. (Pubitemid 33586818)
34. Nermo, Magnus. 1999. Structured by gender. Patterns of sex segregation in the Swedish labour market: Historical and cross-national comparisons. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Swedish Institute for Social Research Dissertation Series no. 41.
35. Neumark, David, Roy J. Bank, and Kyle D. Van Nort. 1996. Sex discrimination in restaurant hiring: An audit study. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 111(3): 915-41. (Pubitemid 126314541)
36. OECD. 2009. International Migration Outlook: SOPEMI 2009. OECD Publishing. Accessed at http://www.iadb.org/intal/intalcdi/PE/2009/04013.pdf.
37. Page, Scott E. 2007. The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools and Societies. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
38. Ployhart, Robert E., and Brian C. Holtz. 2008. The diversity-validity dilemma: Strategies for reducing racioethnic and sex subgroup differences and adverse impact in selection. Personnel Psychology, 61(1): 153-72.
39. Pyburn, Keith M., Robert E. Ployhart, and David A. Kravitz. 2008. The diversity-validity dilemma: Overview and legal context. Personnel Psychology, 61(1): 143-51.
40. Riach, Peter A., and Judith Rich. 2002. Field experiments of discrimination in the market place. Economic Journal, 112: 480-518.
41. Rooth, Dan-Olof. 2009. Automatic associations and discrimination in hiring: Real world evidence. Labour Economics, 17(3): 523-34.
42. Shen, Jie, Ashok Chanda, Brian D'Netto, and Manjit Monga. 2009. Managing diversity through human resource management: An international perspective and conceptual framework. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 20(2): 235-51.
43. Sibbmark, Kristina. 2007. Avidentifierade jobbansökningar- erfarenheter från ett försök i Göteborgs stad. IFAU rapport 2007:15.
44. Statskontoret. 2008. Mångfaldsperspektiv i rekryteringen. En utvärdering av försöket med avidentifierade ansökningar och studien om rekrytering med mångfaldsperspektiv. 14.
45. Tomaskevic-Devey, Donald, and Kevin Stainback. 2007. Discrimination and desegregation: Equal opportunity progress in U.S. private sector workplaces since the Civil Rights Act. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 609(1): 49-84. (Pubitemid 44954348)
46. Weichselbaumer, Doris, and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer. 2005. A meta-analysis of the international gender wage gap. Journal of Economic Surveys, 19(3): 479-511. (Pubitemid 40924043)