Gender discrimination in hiring: An experimental reexamination of the Swedish case

Ahmed, Ali M.,Professor,1977-Linköpings universitet,Nationalekonomi,Filosofiska fakulteten (author)

Gender discrimination in hiring : An experimental reexamination of the Swedish case

Funding: Swedish Research CouncilSwedish Research CouncilEuropean Commission [2018-03487]
We estimated the degree of gender discrimination in Sweden across occupations using a correspondence study design. Our analysis of employer responses to more than 3,200 fictitious job applications across 15 occupations revealed that overall positive employer response rates were higher for women than men by almost 5 percentage points. We found that this gap was driven by employer responses in female-dominated occupations. Male applicants were about half as likely as female applicants to receive a positive employer response in female-dominated occupations. For male-dominated and mixed occupations we found no significant differences in positive employer responses between male and female applicants.

Granberg, MarkLinköpings universitet,Nationalekonomi,Filosofiska fakulteten(Swepub:liu)margr84 (author)
Khanna, ShantanuDepartment of Economics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America (author)
Linköpings universitetNationalekonomi (creator_code:org_t)

In:PLOS ONESan Francisco, CA, United States : Public Library of Science16:1, s. 1-151932-6203

By the author/editor: Ahmed, Ali M., P ...; Granberg, Mark; Khanna, Shantanu

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