Interesting Research paper Read - Gender and Race Preferences in Hiring in the Age of Diversity Goals: Evidence from Silicon Valley Tech Firms

Paper - Link

Key Insights

• Women are 9-10% more likely to receive a callback compared to men, 
• Whereas Black Hispanic and Asian applicants are 8-13% less likely to receive a callback compared to White applicants

Key Notes

Studying hiring discrimination at the intersection of race and gender, giving primacy to both

How hiring discrimination, in particular, leads to occupational segregation.

Experiment #1 - Send Fictitious resumes with randomized white-sounding and black-sounding names to potential employers for different types of occupations and consistent discrimination against African Americans across occupations (Bertrand and Mullainathan 2004).

Insights

Statistical discrimination - Employer who imperfectly observes an applicant's quality and productivity resorts to group-level averages to make inferences about the individual, which may lead to discrimination

Taste-based - Employers may have a prejudiced taste and animus towards a particular group, leading to discrimination (Becker 1971).

Discriminatory phenomenon -  female discrimination in male-dominated occupations and male discrimination in female-dominated occupations

ML Approach

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