Gender Discrimination in Hiring : Evidence from an Audit Experiment in Uzbekistan
This paper studies gender discrimination in hiring through an experiment that randomly assigned fictitious resumes to job advertisements in Uzbekistan. The experiment focused on positions commonly advertised in the local context, such as accountant...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/395981632487281231/Gender-Discrimination-in-Hiring-Evidence-from-an-Audit-Experiment-in-Uzbekistan http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36311 |
| Summary: | This paper studies gender discrimination
in hiring through an experiment that randomly assigned
fictitious resumes to job advertisements in Uzbekistan. The
experiment focused on positions commonly advertised in the
local context, such as accountants, office managers,
information technology specialists, welders, call center
operators, and drivers in the capital city. With the single
exception of the applicant’s gender (signaled by the
person’s name), the resumes were identical within each job
category. The study finds strong evidence of prevalent and
economically significant gender discrimination in response
rates. Despite identical qualifications, we find that in
female-dominated professions, women were 185 percent more
likely to get a callback than men, and in male-dominated
professions, men were 79 percent more likely to get a
callback than women. The findings suggest strong gender
discrimination in hiring practices in Uzbekistan. |
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